George Crabbe (1) (1754–1832)
Auteur van Peter Grimes: The Poor of the Borough
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Werken van George Crabbe
The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals and his life (1834) 14 exemplaren
Poems 7 exemplaren
The Village: a poem 3 exemplaren
Poetical Works 2 exemplaren
Rev. George Crabbe's poems : containing The library, The village, The newspaper, The parish register, The borough (1846) 1 exemplaar
Posthumous Poems of the Rev. George Crabbe — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, etc. [With a portrait and a prefatory memoir signed: C. T.] 1 exemplaar
George Crabbe, Selected Poetry 1 exemplaar
"George Crabbe: the Suffolk poet, 1754-1832" 1 exemplaar
Select English Classics - George Crabbe - Q 1 exemplaar
L'Art Pour l'Art 1 exemplaar
The Newspaper: a poem 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Medewerker — 20 exemplaren
English Verse: Volume 3: The Eighteenth Century: Swift to Crabbe (Penguin Classics) (1995) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1754-12-24
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1832-02-03
- Graflocatie
- in the sanctuary of St. James's Church, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- England
UK - Geboorteplaats
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
London, England, UK - Beroepen
- Poet
clergyman
naturalist
coleopterist (entomologist)
Leden
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 41
- Ook door
- 5
- Leden
- 248
- Populariteit
- #92,014
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 66
- Talen
- 1
Crabbe's descriptions range from the sardonic to the sympathetic. He has no tolerance for hypocrisy or religious dissent, but he is prepared to go a long way to understand the mixture of bad luck and human failings that land people in poverty and crime, and he argues strongly against the inhumanity of the poor relief system as it operated in Georgian times. Sometimes this brings him into odd collisions of utilitarian common-sense and romantic sympathy, but his efforts to put poor people — as individuals — into the centre of the story have a lot in common with what Wordsworth was doing.… (meer)