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Author Description George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, 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.<br /><br />In the 1770s, Crabbe began his career as a doctor's apprentice, later becoming a surgeon. In 1780, he travelled to London to make a living as a poet. After encountering serious financial difficulty and being unable to have his work published, he wrote to the statesman and author <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17142.Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke" rel="nofollow noopener">Edmund Burke</a> for assistance. Burke was impressed enough by Crabbe's poems to promise to help him in any way he could. The two became close friends and Burke helped Crabbe greatly both in his literary career and in building a role within the church.<br /><br />Burke introduced Crabbe to the literary and artistic society of London, including Sir Joshua Reynolds and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22191.Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson" rel="nofollow noopener">Samuel Johnson</a>, who read <i>The Village</i> before its publication and made some minor changes. Burke secured Crabbe the important position of Chaplain to the Duke of Rutland. Crabbe served as a clergyman in various capacities for the rest of his life, with Burke's continued help in securing these positions. He developed friendships with many of the great literary men of his day, including Sir <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4345.Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott" rel="nofollow noopener">Walter Scott</a>, whom he visited in Edinburgh, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/64845.William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth" rel="nofollow noopener">William Wordsworth</a> and some of his fellow Lake Poets, who frequently visited Crabbe as his guests.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/44407.Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron" rel="nofollow noopener">Lord Byron</a> described him as "nature's sternest painter, yet the best." Crabbe's poetry was predominantly in the form of heroic couplets, and has been described as unsentimental in its depiction of provincial life and society. The modern critic Frank Whitehead wrote that "Crabbe, in his verse tales in particular, is an important—indeed, a major—poet whose work has been and still is seriously undervalued." Crabbe's works include <i>The Village</i> (1783), <i>Poems</i> (1807), <i>The Borough</i> (1810), and his poetry collections <i>Tales</i> (1812) and <i>Tales of the Hall</i> (1819).

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