Science Fair Project Encyclopedia William Crowe (1745 - 1829),
poet, born at Midgham, Berks, the son of a carpenter, was
educated as a foundationer at Winchester, whence he proceeded to
Oxford, where he became Public Orator. He wrote a smooth, but
somewhat conventional poem, Lewesdon Hill (1789), edited
Collins's Poems (1828), and lectured on poetry at the Royal
Institution. His poems were collected in 1827. Crowe was a
clergyman and Rector of Alton Barnes, Wilts. The contents of
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