‘That little venal borough’: a poet’s jaundiced view of Aldeburgh

George Crabbe was the first to put the Suffolk town on the map – but not in a good way, says Frances Gibb

From magazine issue: 25 June 2022

Engraving of the poet George Crabbe by James Thomson, after a painting by Henry William Pickersgill. [Getty Images]

issue 25 June 2022

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