The poet-physician : George Crabbe and medicine / Yimon Lo

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lo, Yimon, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections, 2632-5578

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crabbe, George, 1754-1832--Criticism and interpretation.

Crabbe, George.

Medicine in literature.

Medicine in Literature.

Crabbe, George, 1754-1832.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine in Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

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"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Dissecting poverty, end of life, and the economies of health

Physician of the soul

Indulgence, addiction, and intoxication

Portraits of madness

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 23, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Lo, Yimon Poet-physician

ISBN:

9781009579858

1009579851

9781009579827

1009579827

OCLC:

1591411494

Publisher Number:

CIPO000401449

CIPO000404166

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license