Narrative

George Crabbe

13. George Crabbe was born December 24, 1754 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Although he is not as frequently anthologized today as some Romantic writers, such as his friends Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth, Crabbe achieved success in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a celebrated composer of bucolic poetry. After completing his medical training in London in 1777, Crabbe returned to Aldeburgh to set up practice, but found little success as a surgeon. Having already published his first book in 1775, a satire entitled Inebriety, he moved to London in 1780 to try working as a writer. Although initially unable to overcome the financial burden of publishing his work, Crabbe found a benefactor in 1781 when he secured the patronage of Edmund Burke. With Burke