George Crabbe grew up poor in the Suffolk fishing town of Aldeburgh, went to London with almost nothing, was rescued by Edmund Burke, and became a clergyman and the unsentimental poet of village life. Alfred Ainger follows his career and his poems, drawing on the memoir by Crabbe’s son, unpublished sermons and letters, and Edward FitzGerald’s annotations.
A sympathetic short life of a poet admired by Byron, Scott and Jane Austen. Download the free EPUB.