Background
Thomas Lovell was born at Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom on the 20th of July 1803, the son of the physician, Thomas Beddoes. His mother was a sister of Maria Edgeworth, the novelist.
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was an English poet and dramatist whose early play The Brides' Tragedy was highly praised. He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Würzburg, where his involvement in radical politics led to his deportation. He spent the rest of his life in Switzerland and Germany, continuing to write but showing only occasional and fleeting interest in publication. His celebrated drama Death's Jest-Book and his Collected Poems were published posthumously. This volume, edited and with an introduction by Alan Halsey, makes available separately for the first time the surviving text and fragments of Beddoes' unfinished work The Ivory Gate, together with a collection of his later poetry.
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Frank Laurence Lucas (1894-1967) was a renowned English author, poet and classicist, often remembered for his polemical attacks on key modernist figures such as T. S. Eliot, as well as his meticulous scholarship in the production of texts such as the four-volume Complete Works of John Webster. First published in 1932, this book contains a selection of the poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes edited by Lucas. A detailed editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Beddoes and Lucas.
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Thomas Lovell was born at Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom on the 20th of July 1803, the son of the physician, Thomas Beddoes. His mother was a sister of Maria Edgeworth, the novelist.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes studied at the Charterhouse and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1825 and an M.A. degree in 1828. The major portion of his studies in medicine and physiology were pursued in Germany and Switzerland. In Basel in 1848, Beddoes attempted suicide by cutting himself on the leg.
At school Thomas Lovell Beddoes wrote a good deal of verse and a novel in imitation of Fielding. The play found a small circle of admirers, and procured for Beddoes the friendship of Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall).
At this time he composed the dramatic fragments of The Second Brother and Torrismond. Unfortunately he lacked the power of constructing a plot, and seemed to suffer from a constitutional inability to finish anything.
He remained some time in Italy, and met Mrs Shelley and Walter Savage Landor before he returned to England.
The years at Ziirich seem to have been the happiest of his life, but in 1839 the anti-liberal riots in the town rendered it unsafe for him, and early in the next year he had to escape secretly.
From this time he had no settled home, though he stored his books at Baden in Aargau.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes took Degen with him to Zurich, where he chartered the theatre for one night to give his friend a chance of playing Hotspur. The two separated at Basel, and in a fit of dejection (May 1848) Beddoes tried to bleed himself to death.
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(Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was an English poet and...)
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