George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832The English poet George Crabbe, best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, clergyman, botanist, and novelist. An ambitious, resourceful, self-made professional man, he devoted his middle years to his children and his increasingly ill wife, after whose death he embarked, at 60, on an astonishing second life. This new biography charts Crabbe’s progress from an impoverished provincial childhood to the excitement and sophistication of late 18th-century London; through his career as a ducal chaplain and country parson whose addictions included theater-going and opium; to his final years when, as a rector, he traveled widely, met major literary figures, and fell in love with some remarkable young women. |
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Thus the day starts , both actually and figuratively , to decline ; and their vague sense of discontent prompts the adults first to drink and then to drink to excess . Crabbe exactly understands the paradoxes of drunkenness : ' The men ...
Thus the day starts , both actually and figuratively , to decline ; and their vague sense of discontent prompts the adults first to drink and then to drink to excess . Crabbe exactly understands the paradoxes of drunkenness : ' The men ...
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Indeed , he was himself literally out of place in a sense so gently implicit both in his letter to Burke and in the son's Life that it might easily be overlooked . When Crabbe states that ' my master was also a farmer ' and complains ...
Indeed , he was himself literally out of place in a sense so gently implicit both in his letter to Burke and in the son's Life that it might easily be overlooked . When Crabbe states that ' my master was also a farmer ' and complains ...
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135–40 ] In Crabbe's description of the Widow Goe there is an unmistakable sense , which will recur in some of his later tales , of the author closing in on a known subject with exact and teasing detail . All the same , he remains a ...
135–40 ] In Crabbe's description of the Widow Goe there is an unmistakable sense , which will recur in some of his later tales , of the author closing in on a known subject with exact and teasing detail . All the same , he remains a ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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