A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Crowe, William

by John William Cousin

Crowe, William (1745-1829).—Poet, b. at Midgham, Berks, the s. of a carpenter, was ed. as a foundationer at Winchester, whence he proceeded to Oxf., where he became Public Orator. He wrote a smooth, but somewhat conventional poem, Lewesdon Hill (1789), ed. Collins's Poems (1828), and lectured on poetry at the Royal Institution. His poems were coll. in 1827. C. was a clergy man and Rector of Alton Barnes, Wilts.