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GEORGE CRABBE was born at Aldeburgh, on the coast of Suffolk, on 24 December, 1754. His father, a collector of salt-duties at the harbour, was a man of both high tastes and low. Rather disreputable in his later years, he had, as a young man, kept school, and used to read Milton, Young and other poets aloud to his family. Destined for the profession of medicine, George was apprenticed to a medical practitioner in Wickhambrook, near Bury St. Edmunds, from whose surgery, three years later, he passed into that of a doctor at Woodbridge. Here he remained from 1771 to 1775, and became acquainted with Sarah Elmy, who, though ten years were to pass before they were married, exercised from the first a softening and brightening influence on the rather grim nature of the unformed youth. Just about the time of their meeting, Crabbe made his first known appearance in print as a poet. In “the poets’ corner” of a ladies’ magazine in 1772 appeared several pieces of verse, some signed “G. Ebbare” and one “G. Ebbaac,” which are held to be by Crabbe. 1 One of these, consisting of two very pretty stanzas, called The Wish, celebrates the poet’s “Mira,” which was the poetical name given by Crabbe to Sarah Elmy. 1
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