George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832Pimlico, 2004 - 373 Seiten The 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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... Death gives him conquest , and our sorrows fame : One sigh reflection heaves , but shuns excess - More should we mourn him , did we love him less . That closing contention - that profound emotion does not seek extravagant public display ...
... Death gives him conquest , and our sorrows fame : One sigh reflection heaves , but shuns excess - More should we mourn him , did we love him less . That closing contention - that profound emotion does not seek extravagant public display ...
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... death : No ; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe . I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married . It is almost ridiculous . Poor woman ! I will comfort him as well as I can , but I do not ...
... death : No ; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe . I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married . It is almost ridiculous . Poor woman ! I will comfort him as well as I can , but I do not ...
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... death of at least one of her children , and that this triggered her mental decline . There was also , of course , a straightforward commercial explanation for the non - appearance of this or any other further poems in book form before ...
... death of at least one of her children , and that this triggered her mental decline . There was also , of course , a straightforward commercial explanation for the non - appearance of this or any other further poems in book form before ...
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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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