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    George Crabbe (/kræb/ KRAB; 24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the...
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    Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (/ˈkræb/; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor...
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  • Crabbe, Crabbé, or Crabb is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allan Crabb, Australian football player Allen Crabbe, American basketball...
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    Mayfly to suggest a link between heaven and earth. The English poet George Crabbe compared the brief life of a daily newspaper with that of a mayfly in...
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    years, is locally thought to have been the site of the birthplace of George Crabbe (1754–1832) and has organised the annual Aldeburgh Literary Festival...
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    The Borough is a collection of poems by George Crabbe published in 1810. Written in heroic couplets, the poems are arranged as a series of 24 letters...
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    in George Crabbe's long narrative poem The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional small town that bears some resemblance to Crabbe's – and...
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    also provoked critical responses, including from other poets such as George Crabbe. References to the poem, and particularly its ominous "Ill fares the...
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    his character "Grandma" is located in Ipswich town centre); the poets George Crabbe and Robert Bloomfield were both born in Suffolk; farmer and writer Adrian...
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    Pollard, ed. George Crabbe: The Critical Heritage. Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. ISBN 0-203-19631-7. Frank Whitehead (1995). George Crabbe: A Reappraisal...
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    Allen Lester Crabbe III (born April 9, 1992) is an American former professional basketball player who last played for the Westchester Knicks of the NBA...
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    archbishop of Canterbury) was the town's rector from 1726 to 1730. The poet George Crabbe held the same position from 1814 until his death in 1832. Mary Mortimer...
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    acts, 147'. Libretto by Montagu Slater, after the poem The Borough by George Crabbe. Premiered on 7 June 1945 at Sadler's Wells, London. Published by Boosey...
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  • focus on poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and George Crabbe. The Romantic era in Britain was, in addition to a time of growth for...
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    often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. George Crabbe (1754–1832) was an English poet who, during the Romantic period, wrote...
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    village of Parham in Suffolk famously linked to the Aldeburgh poet George Crabbe. The museum comprises the 390th Bombardment Group Memorial Air Museum...
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  • The Borough, an area of London also known as Southwark The Borough (George Crabbe poem) The Boro, a nickname for Middlesbrough FC The Boro, a nickname...
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  • Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2. George Crabbe; Allan Cunningham (1863). George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales. Crosby and...
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    England New York: Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 9781317870807. George Crabbe (1954). George Crabbe, 1754-1832, Bi-centenary Celebrations: The Seventh Aldeburgh...
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    Campbell's poetry, now mostly forgotten, far lower than Hazlitt here did. George Crabbe (1754–1832), an English clergyman, surgeon, and amateur entomologist...
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    artificiality by Doctor Johnson and attacked for their lack of realism by George Crabbe, who attempted to give a true picture of rural life in his poem The...
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    Scriblerus was a pseudonym of Pope's which was later also adopted by George Crabbe. The "Memoirs" bears the seeds of many successful later works borne...
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    hero Horatio Nelson, was born in 1758 in Norfolk. The Suffolk poet George Crabbe married Sarah Elmy at the church in the 18th century. Opposite the church...
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    the Western Messenger in June: criticisms of recent biographies on George Crabbe and Hannah More. In the fall of that year, she developed a terrible...
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    George Crabbe, who held benefices at Parham and Great Glemham, and Crabbe met Charles James Fox and Roger Wilbraham at (Little) Glemham Hall; Crabbe lived...
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    John Dyer's "Grongar Hill' (1762) are two other familiar examples. George Crabbe, the Suffolk regional poet, also wrote topographical poems, as did William...
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  • Coleridge Henry Constable Edith Cooper Abraham Cowley William Cowper George Crabbe Richard Crashaw Samuel Crossman Sir John Davies Richard Watson Dixon...
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    originals. However, several of Wordsworth's contemporaries, such as George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Walter Scott (who edited Dryden's works), were still...
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  • the Sands Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet, dramatist – The Mistress George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet; did not matriculate Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)...
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    The Schoolmistress, A Poem based on his experience at a dame school. George Crabbe: wrote a poem based on his experience at a dame school in his Poems:...
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