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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... remarkable about his father's behaviour . In late eighteenth - century London , corpses some of them dug up from graveyards – were indeed commonly bought and sold for dissection , and there was very little squeamishness about death ...
... remarkable about his father's behaviour . In late eighteenth - century London , corpses some of them dug up from graveyards – were indeed commonly bought and sold for dissection , and there was very little squeamishness about death ...
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... remarkable that , in the immense number of his characters , no two are represented as bearing any relation to or influencing the feelings of each other.'25 Denman would surely have found this still more remarkable had he known , as we ...
... remarkable that , in the immense number of his characters , no two are represented as bearing any relation to or influencing the feelings of each other.'25 Denman would surely have found this still more remarkable had he known , as we ...
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... remarkable passage vividly illustrates the internal contradictions of Crabbe's literary aesthetic . In his engagement with ' painful realities ' , including both physical poverty and extreme psychological disturbance , he is amazingly ...
... remarkable passage vividly illustrates the internal contradictions of Crabbe's literary aesthetic . In his engagement with ' painful realities ' , including both physical poverty and extreme psychological disturbance , he is amazingly ...
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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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