George Crabbe

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Standard Name: Crabbe, George

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Reception Valentine Ackland
Though VA 's poems were well received when they first began to appear, she was always a poet out of step with her time: more in tune, as Claire Harman remarks, with writers of the...
Friends, Associates Joanna Baillie
On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded in his diary meeting JB and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger ). In his account of this pleasant evening...
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter
Textual Features Susanna Blamire
These Poetical Works include the first publication of SB 's longest poem, Stoklewath, with its affectionate, picturesque, but socially realistic portrait of village life. On Imagined Happiness in Humble Stations follows up this realism...
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
CB was praised for this volume both in Blackwood's (her publisher's own journal) and in the London Quarterly Review.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Writing in 1840, Henry Nelson Coleridge called the title piece a beautiful little poem in...
Textual Production Mary Bryan
Another adviser was apparently the Bristol writer Charles Abraham Elton (who also employed Elizabeth Ham as a governess in his family and helped her revise her longest poem for publication). He suggested that Bryan might...
Literary responses Mary Bryan
The novel's publication was listed in the Edinburgh Review 49 (1829): 529, together with Scott's Anne of Geierstein.
The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.
49 (1829): 528-9
The Sun linked the setting not with Crabbe but with Mary Russell Mitford
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Damer
Her father, Henry Seymour Conway , was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of...
Publishing Mary Deverell
MD had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It was dedicated to Lord Aldborough . Subscribers included George Crabbe , Richard Graves , Jonas Hanway , Dr Robert Lowth , Hannah More ...
Intertextuality and Influence Maria Edgeworth
This fine novel shows many of the familiar features of Edgeworth's longer fiction. She took the basic plot-line from a poem by George Crabbe , The Confidant. She makes of it a highly intertextual...
Friends, Associates Eliza Fletcher
Eliza Dawson set herself to achieve a real friendship with Yearsley , who however was touchy about it, and took it on herself to lecture Eliza about her taste for novels, condemning them as the...
Publishing Margaret Fuller
A review by MF of two recent biographies, one of Hannah More and another of George Crabbe , appeared in the first issue of the Western Messenger. It was her first published piece of literary criticism.
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press.
66
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin.
737
Although his...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published Tales of the Priory, with her name, acknowledging her indebtedness to Crabbe by a quotation on the title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 498
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1820):176
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
70-1
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published Fortitude, A Tale, set in 1742; the title-page quotes George Crabbe (rather than the Bible, which she frequently uses to give weight to title-pages of this kind).
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
88-9

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29 October 1807: George Crabbe published Poems, including...

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29 October 1807

George Crabbe published Poems, including the important group of pieces about local life entitled The Parish Register.

By March 1810: George Crabbe published The Borough, a poem...

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By March 1810

George Crabbe published The Borough, a poem in twenty-four letters about life in a country town.

By September 1812: George Crabbe published Tales in Verse....

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By September 1812

George Crabbe published Tales in Verse.

By April 1819: George Crabbe published another collection...

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By April 1819

George Crabbe published another collection of narrative poems: Tales of the Hall.

7 June 1945: Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's opera based...

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7 June 1945

Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten 's opera based on a poem by George Crabbe , premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre , London.

Texts

Crabbe, George. Selected Letters and Journals. Editors Faulkner, Thomas C. and Rhonda L. Blair, Clarendon Press, 1985.
Crabbe, George. The Complete Poetical Works. Editors Dalrymple-Champneys, Norma and Arthur Pollard, Clarendon Press, 1988.