Burke, Edmund - 1781

George Crabbe (1754-1832)
English poet, was born at Aldeburgh.  He was a surgeon, but abandoned his profession for literary pursuits and went to London 1780.  Edmund Burke secured a publisher for his poem The Library in 1781 and advised him to take Holy Orders.

He was ordained in 1782 and became chaplain to the Duke of Rutland.  He published The Village in 1783 and, in 1807, The Parish Register.  These his best works, were followed by The Borough, Tales in Verse, and Tales of the Hall.  His poetry portrays realistically the lives of the destitute.

~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1774.