William Crowe (poet)

William Crowe
William Crowe, 1808 caricature by Robert Dighton
Born	1745 Midgham, Berkshire
Died	(1829-02-09)9 February 1829 Queen Square (Bath)
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]