William Crowe (poet)

William Crowe (poet)

William Crowe (1745 – 1829) was a British poet, born in Midgham, Berkshire, England. He was the son of a carpenter and was educated as a foundationer at Winchester. He then proceeded to Oxford, where he became Public Orator. He wrote a smooth, but somewhatconventional poem, "Lewesdon Hill" in 1789, edited Collins's Poems in 1828,and lectured on poetry at the Royal Institution. His poems were collectedin 1827. Crowe was a clergyman and Rector of Alton Barnes in Wiltshire.


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