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The Poet-Physician

George Crabbe and Medicine

Expected online publication date:  04 August 2026

Yimon Lo
Affiliation:
Centre for Music, Text and Cultures

Summary

This Element offers the first comprehensive study of George Crabbe's engagement with medical thought and practice in his poetry. Drawing on his interest in illness, care, and healing as a trained physician, surgeon, apothecary, and obstetrician, it addresses how his medical expertise and awareness inform his assessment of social problems, his perspective on the role of a poet, and his views on education and religion. The study examines the intersection between Crabbe's poetic achievement and medical discourse in advancing humanist healing for mind and soul, and explores how his verse registers systemic and ethical issues surrounding poverty, addiction, intoxication, and madness through an unsentimental and truthful style. By tracing the moral and social implications of the connection between medical vision and poetic philosophy, it recovers Crabbe as a significant poet-physician of the long eighteenth century and invites renewed attention to the cultural work of his poetry in health and medicine.

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The Poet-Physician
  • Yimon Lo, Centre for Music, Text and Cultures
  • Online ISBN: 9781009579858
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  • Online ISBN: 9781009579858
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The Poet-Physician
  • Yimon Lo, Centre for Music, Text and Cultures
  • Online ISBN: 9781009579858
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