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Pickled essence of Englishman. (Literature).(analysis of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's works)
CREEPY, macabre, disdainful, Thomas Lovell Beddoes is one of the oddest figures in English poetry. Ezra Pound called him "the prince of Morticians", Graham Greene the "filibustering medical poet". "Dr Death" might be our contemporary moniker. He died in 1849 in a Basle hospital after taking a dose of curare, the Orinoco arrow-tip poison that was to become such a useful adjunct to general anaesthesia in our era. "I am food for what I am good for--worms", he wrote in his suicide note.
Cult references to Beddoes crop up in odd places like Dorothy Sayers' murder mystery Have His Carcase and Simon Raven's novel sequence Alms for Oblivion, though if he is known today ...
- On being second-rate: the Skeleton Art of Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Karlin, Daniel January 1, 2006 700+ words
Thomas Lovell Beddoes is periodically subject to critical...But palls the lazy throng. (Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1)) Mr Creakle, the bullying...after the suicide, in Basel, of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. When the last number appeared...
- "Toms Laocoon": a newly discovered poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry Baker, John Haydn September 22, 2002 700+ words
...CEMETERY in Rome for six months and Shelley was Byron's guest at Ravenna. Their rather younger contemporary Thomas Lovell Beddoes was staying with his friend, the Rev. Henry Card, at the somewhat less romantic location of Great Malvern...
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- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Beddoes, William Minton,1817-1870--Artist January 1, 1934 700+ words
- The poet as art critic.(A Column)(Selected Prose)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Yau, John May 1, 2005 700+ words
...Harvard University Press, 2000) is around one hundred and fifty pages long, and includes essays on John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert, writers who, at best, barely have...
- Shakespeare's ghost and Felicia Hemans's The Vespers of Palermo:...
- Magazine article from: Intertexts Purinton, Marjean D. September 22, 2004 700+ words
...context and shadow of William Shakespeare, notably Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, P.B. Shelley and Thomas Lovell Beddoes. (5) Shakespearean plays were standard fare at Romantic theatres, with the great Shakespearean roles performed...
- Marginalien.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Chicago Review Merchant, Paul December 22, 2005 700+ words
...Romantic lens, and the fragment "From an Anatomy of Death's Jest Book," part of Halsey's long engagement with Thomas Lovell Beddoes, which culminated in his edition of Death's Jest Book, published by his West House Books in 2003. These two...
- New Poetics (Sans Aristotle).(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Joseph, Lawrence December 13, 1999 700+ words
...connections between Eavan Boland and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Allen Ginsberg and William Blake, John Ashbery and Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thom Gunn and Ben Jonson, Elizabeth Bishop and Alexander Pope." It is, Schmidt maintains, a story that...
- Books received.(Recent Studies)
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 September 22, 2008 700+ words
...ISBN 978-0-230-52164-3. Berns. Ute, and Michael Bradshaw, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Nineteenth Century. Gen. eds. Vincent Newey and Joanne Shattock. Aldershot UK and Burlington VT: Ashgate...
