Romantic literature in English nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". George Crabbe (1754–1832) was an English poet who, during the Romantic period, wrote "closely observed, realistic portraits of rural life [...] in the heroic couplets of the Augustan age". Lord Byron who was an admirer of Crabbe's poetry, described him as "nature's sternest painter, yet the best". Modern critic Frank Whitehead has said that "Crabbe, in his verse tales in particular, is an important–indeed, a major–poet whose work has been and still is seriously undervalued." Crabbe's works include "The Village" (1783), "Poems" (1807), "The Borough" (1810), and his
A Dog Named Christmas million and ABC's "Desperate Housewives" at 12.6 million, but outperformed Fox's "The Simpsons" (9 million) and "Family Guy" (8.5 million). The movie was shot in the Southey and Earl Grey area, located in Saskatchewan, Canada. A Dog Named Christmas A Dog Named Christmas is a 2009 American/Canadian television film that debuted on CBS as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" movie on November 29, 2009. The film was produced by Brent Shields, directed by Peter Werner and written by Jenny Wingfield, who based the script from a novel of the same name by Greg Kincaid. A tale of a young man