George Crabbe (1)Critiques
Auteur de Peter Grimes: The Poor of the Borough
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent George Crabbe, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Critiques
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Crabbe's descriptions range from the sardonic to the sympathetic. He has no tolerance for hypocrisy or religious dissent, but he is prepared to go a long way to understand the mixture of bad luck and human failings that land people in poverty and crime, and he argues strongly against the inhumanity of the poor relief system as it operated in Georgian times. Sometimes this brings him into odd collisions of utilitarian common-sense and romantic sympathy, but his efforts to put poor people — as individuals — into the centre of the story have a lot in common with what Wordsworth was doing.½