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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And he very interestingly adds that when Benjamin Britten - like Crabbe , a child of the East Anglian coast – ' worked for a brief spell in a cottage sunk in the cornlands of Suffolk , he told me how utterly different the imaginative ...
And he very interestingly adds that when Benjamin Britten - like Crabbe , a child of the East Anglian coast – ' worked for a brief spell in a cottage sunk in the cornlands of Suffolk , he told me how utterly different the imaginative ...
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Sarah Hoare was right to call it a ' tale ' , and it is arguably the first of Crabbe's works to which this description unequivocally applies : it is almost entirely told by its subject , a simple country girl who , though engaged to a ...
Sarah Hoare was right to call it a ' tale ' , and it is arguably the first of Crabbe's works to which this description unequivocally applies : it is almost entirely told by its subject , a simple country girl who , though engaged to a ...
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237-52 ] ' The Parting Hour ' thus contains within its outer framework not only Allen's account of his life , told to Judith in their companionable old age , but also these stories of his life and hers told to him : it is another of ...
237-52 ] ' The Parting Hour ' thus contains within its outer framework not only Allen's account of his life , told to Judith in their companionable old age , but also these stories of his life and hers told to him : it is another of ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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