Crabbe, George, 1754-1832; Poets, English -- 18th century -- Biography; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
_Aaron the Gipsy_
Addison
_Adventures of Richard, The_
Aldeburgh
_Allegro_ (Milton)
Allington (Lincolnshire)
_Ancient Mansion, The_
_Annals of the Parish, The_ (Galt)
_Annual Register, The_
Austen, Jane
Autobiography, Crabbe's
B
Baillie, Agnes
--Joanna
Barnes, William
Barrie, J.M.
Barton, Bernard,
_Basket-Woman, The_ (Edgeworth)
Bath
Beccles
Belvoir Castle
Biography, Crabbe's
"Blaney"
_Borough, The_
Boswell
Bowles, William Lisle
_Boys at School_
Bristol
Bunbury, Sir Henry
Burke
Burns
Butler, Joseph
Byron
C
Campbell, Thomas
_Candidate, The_
_Canterbury Tales, The_ (Chaucer)
_Castle Rackrent_ (Edgeworth)
Celtic Club
Chatterton
Chaucer
_Childe Harold_ (Byron)
Church, English
Churchill (poet)
_Clarissa Harlowe_ (Richardson)
"Clelia"
Clergy, non-residence of
sketches of
Clifton
Coleridge
_Confessions of an Opium Eater_, (De Quincey)
_Confidant, The_
Courthope, Mr.
Cowley
Cowper
Crabbe, George, birth and family
history of;
early literary bent;
school days;
apprenticed to a surgeon;
life at Woodbridge;
falls in love;
first efforts in verse;
practises as a surgeon;
dangerous illness;
engagement to Miss Elmy;
seeks his fortune in London;
poverty in London;
keeps a diary;
unsuccessful attempts to sell his poems;
appeals to Edmund Burke;
Burke's help and patronage;
invited to Burke's country seat;
publishes _The Library_;
friendship with Burke;
second letter to Burke;
meetings with prominent men;
takes Holy Orders;
returns to Aldeburgh as curate;
coldly received by his fellow-townsmen;
becomes domestic chaplain to the Duke of Rutland;
life at Belvoir Castle;
_The Village_;
receives LL.B. degree;
presented to two livings;
marriage;
curate of Stathern;
his children;
village traditions concerning him;
_The Newspaper_;
life at Stathern;
moves to Muston;
revisits his native place;
goes to Parham;
lives at Great Glemham Hall;
moves to Rendham;
ill-health;
use of opium;
returns to Muston;
publishes a new volume of poems;
_The Parish Register_;
his great popularity;
friendship with Sir Walter Scott;
_The Borough_;
_Tales_;
visit to London;
returns to Muston;
death of his wife;
serious illness;
rector of Trowbridge;
departure from Muston;
intercourse with literary men in London;
a member of the "Literary Society";
receives £3000 from John Murray;
returns to Trowbridge;
_Tales of the Hall_;
visits Scott in Edinburgh;
_Posthumous Poems_;
last years at Trowbridge;
illness and death;
his religious temperament;
rusticity and lack of polish;
indifference to art;
want of tact;
love of female society;
acquaintance and sympathy with the poor;
his preaching;
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