Crabbe, George, 1754-1832

English poet.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to an unnamed correspondent, [1817] May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270520174

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Parham, to Mr. Robinson, 1791 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526777

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Trowbridge, to his son, the Reverend George Crabbe, 1828 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530510

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Muston, Grantham, to the Dean of Lincoln, 1814 Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525229

From the description of Verses written on revisiting a place after many years absence : n.p.] : autograph manuscript unsigned of the poem, written on the verso of autograph notes for a sermon, [1814]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539903

George Crabbe was born in Suffolk, apprenticed as an apothecary, and planned to be a doctor, but decided to move to London to become a writer. Destitute and depressed, he wrote a letter of appeal to Edmund Burke, who found promise in Crabbe's poetry and helped him to publish and become ordained as a chaplain. Crabbe wrote in various genres, but was most successful as a poet, writing satire, social commentary, and narrative poems, generally in heroic couplets; his most famous poem was The Village. At the height of his fame, he stopped publishing poetry for twenty-two years, instead regularly burning what he did write and concentrating on his parish duties and his study of botany. After the hiatus, his work was well-received, but considered to be uninspired and workmanlike.

From the description of George Crabbe letter to Dear Madam, 18--? Nov. 23. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 63664517

George Crabbe, English poet, doctor, and minister. Lord Byron called him "nature's sternest painter.".

From the guide to the George Crabbe manuscript material : 12 items, ca. 1809-1829, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.)

Purchase; The Scriptorium; 1991.

From the guide to the Letter, 1829 April 23, Trowbridge [to] The Revd. Geo. Crabbe, Bristol., 1849 April 23, (Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections)

Crabbe was an English poet and rector.

From the description of Poems, 1813-1817. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84940031

From the guide to the Poems, 1813-1817., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

The English poet, doctor, and minister George Crabbe was a native of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the subject of much of his verse.

He is noted for his unsentimental depictions of rural life -- Byron called him "nature's sternest painter." His last book published in his lifetime was Tales of the Hall, a series of narrative poems, in 1819, after which he enjoyed a life of retirement and literary celebrity.

From the description of Manuscript poem and five letters, 1816 Feb. 23 - 1829 July 24. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122607128

The English poet, doctor and minister George Crabbe was a native of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the subject of much of his verse.

He was an established writer by 1814 when he began his work on Tales of the Hall, a series of narrative poems constructed as an exchange of anecdotes between two estranged brothers. Completed in 1819, Tales of the Hall was the last volume of poems by Crabbe published in his lifetime.

From the description of Tales of the hall : holograph manuscript, 1814-1819. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122639817