William Crowe | |
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Born | 1745 Midgham, Berkshire |
Died | Queen Square (Bath) | 9 February 1829
Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
Genre | Poetry |
William Crowe (1745–1829) was an English poet, the son of a carpenter and educated as a foundationer at Winchester College. He went to Oxford, where he became public orator.
Crowe was a clergyman and rector of Alton Barnes in Wiltshire. He wrote a popular, but somewhat conventional poem, Lewesdon Hill in 1789, edited William Collins's Poems in 1828, and lectured on poetry at the Royal Institution. His poems were collected in 1804 and 1827.[1]