George Crabbe: An English Life: 1754-1832

by Neil Powell

The English poet George Crabbe, best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, clergyman, botanist, and novelist. An ambitious, resourceful, self-made professional man, he devoted his middle years to his children and his increasingly ill wife, after whose death he embarked, at 60, on an astonishing second life. This new biography charts Crabbe's progress from an impoverished provincial childhood to the excitement and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712689990
• ISBN13: 9780712689991
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"