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7 unusual facts about George Crabbe


1780 in poetry

George Crabbe, The Candidate, published anonymously in July

1781 in poetry

George Crabbe, The Library, published anonymously

1810 in poetry

George Crabbe, The Borough in 24 epistles, including one on "Peter Grimes", a poem based on Aldeburgh

1834 in poetry

George Crabbe, The Poetical Works of George Crabbe (includes letters, journals and a biography by Crabbe's son; published in eight volumes from February through September)

Alexander Druzhinin

He translated three of Shakespeare's plays; King Lear, Coriolanus and Richard III; he published a series of essays entitled Boswell and Johnson, about English life in the eighteenth century; and he wrote a life of George Crabbe which included numerous extracts from his poetry.

George Crabbe

Crabbe was known as a coleopterist and recorder of beetles, and is credited for discovering the first specimen of Calosoma sycophanta L. to be recorded from Suffolk.

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh

There is a memorial by Thomas Thurlow to George Crabbe the poet (d. 1832) and a monument to Lady Henrietta Vernon, d.1786.



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