Rev. George Grabbe, born Dec. 24, 1754, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Eng.
died Feb. 3, 1832, Trowbridge, Wiltshire


English writer of poems and verse tales memorable for their realistic details of everyday life.


"The Preceptor Husband," one of the best of the stories in Crabbe's lighter vein, relates the disillusionment of a man of learning who had been caught by an empty-headed girl with just wit enough to play up to him.

The Old Bachelor, who, for a nice but sound reason which may be fairly taken as the author's own, amuses himself with the Arthurian legends and Cervantes. He has, like Kent in Lear, ' years on his back forty-eight,'he is too old to dream of being, as he had dreamed in his youth, a ' modern ' hero of romance.

All these in this volume are from his 1819 work called "Tales of the Hall."