The Borough (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Crabbe
- First Published: 1810
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Principal Characters: Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford, Swallow, Blaney, The Mayor of the Borough, The Vicar of the Parish, A Burgess
- Genres: Poetry, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Sea or seafaring life, Beaches or seashores, Romanticism, Fishing or fishermen, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: England
George Crabbe was a writer of provincial background who had made good in the capital by using his provincial material. His initial success in London with The Library, published in 1781, made it possible for the son of a fisherman and petty customs officer to enter the Church in 1782 and be given a respectable living as an Anglican clergyman. For a time he gave up poetry after publishing The Newspaper in 1785. His next publication, Poems, was not until 1807. In the decades between his two periods of composition, much had changed in English poetry; Crabbe’s...
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