Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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| Occupation(s) | Physician, poet, dramatist |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803
Biography
Born in
Beddoes' work shows a constant preoccupation with death. In 1824, he went to Göttingen to study medicine, motivated by his hope of discovering physical evidence of a human spirit which survives the death of the body.[2] He was expelled, and then went to Würzburg to complete his training. He then wandered about practising his profession, and expounding democratic theories which got him into trouble. He was deported from Bavaria in 1833, and had to leave Zürich, where he had settled, in 1840.
He continued to write, but published nothing.
He led an itinerant life after leaving Switzerland, returning to England only in 1846, before going back to Germany. He became increasingly disturbed, and committed suicide by poison at Basel, in 1849, at the age of 45.[3]
For some time before his death he had been engaged on a drama, Death's Jest Book, which was published in 1850 with a memoir by his friend,
Reception
Critics have faulted Beddoes as a dramatist. According to
References
- ^ "According to the Church Registers the poet was born on 30 June 1803, at 3 Rodney Place, Clifton ..." Donner 1950, xvi.
- ^ Donner 1950, pp. xxxvi-xxxvii.
- ^
Berns, Ute; Bradshaw, Michael, eds. (2007). "Introduction". The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-0-7546-6009-5. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
- ^ Donner 1950, p. lxxix.
- ^ Donner 1950, pp. xxxii–xxxiii.
- ^ Cousin 1910, p. 32.
- ^ Donner 1950, pp. xi, lxxxi.
- ^ Dabundo 2011, p. 33.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Gosse, Edmund (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Dabundo, L. Encyclopedia of romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s. (London: Routledge, 2011). ISBN 1135232350.
- Donner, H.W., ed. The Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935).
- Donner, H.W., ed. Plays and Poems of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1950).
- Ute Berns and Michael Bradshaw (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007) (The Nineteenth Century Series).
External links
- Phantom-Wooer: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Website – continues work of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, 2006 to 2010
- "Text" at Phantom-Wooer – catalogues some online editions and provides many itself
- Doomsday: Journal of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society [dead link]
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes at The Literary Encyclopedia (litencyc.com)
- Works by Thomas Lovell Beddoes at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Thomas Lovell Beddoes at Internet Archive
- Works by Thomas Lovell Beddoes at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes at Library of Congress, with 19 library catalogue records
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