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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 Who 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.--book Jacket. 1 The Sea And The River 1754-1768 1 -- 2 The Surgeon's Apprentice 1768-1780 17 -- 3 A Stranger In The City 1780-1782 49 -- 4 The Duke's Chaplain 1782-1789 81 -- 5 The Botanical Gardener 1789-1796 114 -- 6 Telling Tales 1796-1809 146 -- 7 In Search Of Peter Grimes 1810 180 -

Author

Powell, Neil, 1948-

Publisher

London: Pimlico

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780712689991

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography