George Crabbe (1754-1832)
George Crabbe
In the 18th century, the Suffolk poet George Crabbe worked for a while
in another doctor's surgery in a house almost opposite the Plumbers'
Arms pub at the crossroads of the A143 - regrettably burnt down
in the 1970s and replaced by a modern house. In 1783 Crabbe wrote
The Village - a poem about the
misery of rural poverty, probably drawing upon his experiences in
Wickhambrook where he was unhappy (he had been born in more salubrious
Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast).
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