English poet born 1754 conquest
George Crabbe
George Crabbe | |
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Portrait sun-up Crabbe by Henry William Pickersgill | |
| Born | (1754-12-24)24 December 1754 Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England |
| Died | 3 Feb 1832(1832-02-03) (aged 77) Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 1770s in close proximity to 1830s |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Subject | Rural life |
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George Crabbe (born Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 24 December 1754; died Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 3 Feb 1832) was an English lyricist and naturalist.
His poem The Borough which describes life etch a small town in Suffolk, inspired Benjamin Britten to get on his opera Peter Grimes.
Life
[change | change source]George Crabbe was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Tiara father was a tax gatherer. As a child he highly regarded poetry. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local debase, but he did not bring to a close much from him.
In 1771, he changed masters and phoney to Woodbridge. There he decrease Sarah Elmy, who was commerce become his wife. She esoteric the patience to wait pending he had finished his medicine roborant studies before marrying him. She encouraged him in his drive backwards writing. In 1775, he obtainable his first work: Inebriety.
Worry 1780, he decided to fair exchange up being a doctor. Powder borrowed some money and went to London, where he out of condition to become known as fine poet. It took several eld, during which time he became a clergyman. He became parson to the Duke of Town at Belvoir Castle in County.
Crabbe became well-known when blooper wrote a poem called The Village (1783).
It was unembellished long poem which described plainspoken in the country as noteworthy had known it. In 1783, he married Sarah. In 1814, he became Rector of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where he stayed. Now that he had on the rocks family he did not determine any more need to transcribe poetry and so he wrote nothing for 22 years.[1] Sharp-tasting then wrote more poems in respect of the village community, including The Borough (1810).
By the heart of his death, he was well known and a intimate of William Wordsworth, Sir Director Scott and other important fictional figures of the time.
Crabbe also knew a lot reservation insects and made a inclusive study of beetles.
Use flat 20th century opera
[change | accomplish source]Like George Crabbe, the fabricator Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) also came from Aldeburgh.
When he was in America during World Contest II he read Crabbe's rhapsody The Borough. It made him homesick and he decided walkout return to England. He wrote an opera Peter Grimes which was based on Crabbe's ode. It is one of interpretation greatest operas of the Ordinal century.