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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... poet . Even when he is writing of other things , there steals again and again into his verse the sea , the estuary , the flat Suffolk coast , and local meanness , and an odour of brine and dirt- tempered occasionally with the scent of ...
... poet . Even when he is writing of other things , there steals again and again into his verse the sea , the estuary , the flat Suffolk coast , and local meanness , and an odour of brine and dirt- tempered occasionally with the scent of ...
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... poet who needed one friend – his intellectual equal or superior - with whom he could discuss the progress and the vexations of his life and work . Edmund Burke had been such a friend ; as had , at different times , Charles Manners ...
... poet who needed one friend – his intellectual equal or superior - with whom he could discuss the progress and the vexations of his life and work . Edmund Burke had been such a friend ; as had , at different times , Charles Manners ...
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... Poets as a kind of provincial splinter group by a poet who had barely set foot in the capital for thirty - five years has an irony which he presumably did not intend . On 3 July he was in a brisk mood , having heard from his deputising ...
... Poets as a kind of provincial splinter group by a poet who had barely set foot in the capital for thirty - five years has an irony which he presumably did not intend . On 3 July he was in a brisk mood , having heard from his deputising ...
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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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