NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Crabbe, George, 1754-1832 NRA: Crabbe, George (1754-1832) Poet DNB: Crabbe, George (1754-1832), poet and Church of England
clergyman LBT ID: GeCrabb1832
VIAF ID: 100175819
LOC ID: n80050344
English poet renowned for his couplet verse and gloomy depictions of country persons and
places; author of the The Village (1783), The
Parish Register (1807), The Borough (1810), and Tales of the Hall (1819).
Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [26 January] 1819 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)
John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 20 April 1822 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)