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Synopsis
George Crabbe (1754-1832) was privy to both poverty and provincial society at the turn of the 19th century. Throughout the unheaval of the Romantic movement he persisted in his precise, closely observed, realistic rural portraits, writing mainly in the heroic couplets of the preceding age.
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About the Author
George Crabbe was born in 1754 in Suffolk. The son of a collector of salt-duties, he spent a period of apprenticeship and unsuccessful practice as an apothecary and surgeon before moving to London to make his way as a writer. Struggling with destitution, he was befriended by Edmund Burke, who helped him first to get his work published and then to embark on a career in the church. His religious career culminated in his appointment as Rector of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where he died in 1832.
Gavin Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales. He is the author of George Crabbe's Poetry on Border Land (1990) and Narrative Order 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution (2005).
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- ISBN 10 0140439714
- ISBN 13 9780140439717
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages528
- EditorEdwards Gavin
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