Jane Austen, fangirl
An article in the New York Sun talks about George Crabbe, whose poetry Jane Austen admired.
His life span, 1754-1832, completely encompassed those of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns, and Jane Austen. It missed encompassing the life spans of Coleridge and Scott by only months. Wordsworth outlived Crabbe, of course. (Wordsworth outlived everybody, including, I cannot resist adding, himself.) Some of these were among Crabbe’s admirers. Jane Austen actually borrowed one of his characters for “Mansfield Park.”
Um…Fanny Price? We think…
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