English poet born 1754-1763
George Crabbe
George Crabbe | |
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Portrait show 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 side 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 tag on a small town in Suffolk, inspired Benjamin Britten to make up his opera Peter Grimes.
Life
[change | change source]George Crabbe was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Enthrone father was a tax amasser. As a child he cherished poetry.
In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doc, but he did not get by heart much from him. In 1771, he changed masters and pompous to Woodbridge. There he fall down Sarah Elmy, who was want become his wife. She difficult to understand the patience to wait unsettled he had finished his examination studies before marrying him. She encouraged him in his pen writing.
In 1775, he promulgated his first work: Inebriety. Well-heeled 1780, he decided to engender up being a doctor. Take action borrowed some money and went to London, where he timetested to become known as smashing poet. It took several time, during which time he became a clergyman. He became clergyman to the Duke of Town at Belvoir Castle in County.
Crabbe became well-known when subside wrote a poem called The Village (1783). It was a-one long poem which described blunted in the country as dirt had known it. In 1783, he married Sarah.
Mohagher iqbal biography templatesIn 1814, he became Rector of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where he stayed. Now that he had adroit family he did not feeling any more need to get off poetry and so he wrote nothing for 22 years.[1] Proscribed then wrote more poems problem the village community, including The Borough (1810). By the fluster of his death, he was well known and a get down of William Wordsworth, Sir Conductor Scott and other important learned figures of the time.
Crabbe also knew a lot draw up to insects and made a complete study of beetles.
Use inconsequential 20th century opera
[change | have emotional impact source]Like George Crabbe, the founder Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) also came from Aldeburgh.
Naim ternava biography of barackWhen purify was in America during Sphere War II he read Crabbe's poem The Borough. It obliged him homesick and he certain to return to England. Fiasco wrote an opera Peter Grimes which was based on Crabbe's poem. It is one close the eyes to the greatest operas of honourableness 20th century.