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en-wikipedia-org-5900		George Crabbe - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6686	644	79	George's father respected his son's interest in literature, and George was sent first to a boarding-school at Bungay near his home, and a few years later to a more important school at Stowmarket, where he gained an understanding of mathematics and Latin, and a familiarity with the Latin classics.[5] His early reading included the works of William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, who had a great influence on George's future works, Abraham Cowley, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser. During Scott's final illness, Crabbe was the last writer he asked to have read to him.[73][74] Lord Byron admired Crabbe's poetry, and called him "nature's sternest painter, yet the best".[75] According to critic Frank Whitehead, "Crabbe, in his verse tales in particular, is an important—indeed, a major—poet whose work has been and still is seriously undervalued."[76] His early poems, which were non-narrative essays in poetical form, gained him the approval of literary men like Samuel Johnson, followed by a period of 20 years in which he wrote much, destroying most of it, and published nothing.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5900.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5900.txt