George Crabbe
Sign in to saveEnglish poet, surgeon, and clergyman (1754-1832)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1754
- Died
- 1832
- Works
- 136
Top works
- The Skull
- Poetical works ... Life
- Readings in Crabbe
- Cullings from Crabbe
- A discourse, read in the chapel at Belvoir castle, after the funeral of His Grace the Duke of Rutland
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1754-12-24
- Active to
- 1832-02-03
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,956x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,659x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,947x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,702x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,211x
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Quotes
- “Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few,And those who taste not, yet behold her store,Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore,The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.”
- “The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.”
- “A master passion is the love of news.”
- “Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,Like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
- “The mind here exhibited is one untouched by pity, unstung by remorse, and uncorrected by shame; yet is this hardihood of temper and spirit broken by want, disease, solitude, and disappointment, and he becomes the victim of a distempered and horror-stricken fancy.”
- “Habit with him was all the test of truth,It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1754-12-24 ) 24 December 1754, Aldeburgh , Suffolk , England
- Died
- 3 February 1832 (1832-02-03) (aged 77), Trowbridge , Wiltshire , England
- Nationality
- English
- Period
- 1770s to 1830s
- Genre
- Poetry
- Subject
- Rural life
- Notable works
- The Village (1783) The Borough (1810)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to George Crabbe, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
George Crabbe (/kræb/ KRAB; 24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people.
Aged 14, Crabbe was apprenticed to a farmer–apothecary at Wickhambrook, which he resented, spending more time as a farm-hand than training as an apothecary. He returned to work in his father's warehouse, and was then sent to John Page, a surgeon in Woodbridge, who employed him in filling prescriptions and compounding medicines.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “George Crabbe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.