Peter Parker

‘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

Engraving of the poet George Crabbe by James Thomson, after a painting by Henry William Pickersgill. [Getty Images]
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  • A Time and a Place: George Crabbe, Aldeburgh and Suffolk

    Frances Gibb

    Lutterworth, pp. 192, £17

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