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GEORGE CRABBE
AN ENGLISH LIFE, 1754-1832 |
| By: |
Neil Powell |
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Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845952189 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845952181 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
17 February, 2014 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
The poet George Crabbe (1754 - 1832), best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, a clergyman, a botanist, and a novelist. This is a portrait of a poet - a man of low-key and unsentimental vision who lived a quintessentially English life. |
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The poet George Crabbe (1754 - 1832), best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, a clergyman, a botanist, and a 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, for the first time, Crabbe's progress from an impoverished, provincial childhood in coastal Suffolk to late eighteenth-century London, where he witnessed the Gordon Riots and acquired Edmund Burke as patron; through his eventful career as a ducal chaplain and county parson whose addictions included natural history, theatre-going, and opium; and so on to his final years when, as a rector in Wiltshire, he travelled widely, met major literary figures such as Scott and Wordsworth, and fell in love with some remarkable young women. Neil Powell provides a compelling portrait of a uniquely gifted poet - a man of low-key and unsentimental vision who lived a quintessentially English life. |
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UK |
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Pimlico |
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