160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
Publication History
Selected Bibliography
Preface
Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy
Notes
Editorial Notes
The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society

Biography

Michael Bradshaw is a lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University; he is the author of Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and co-editor of Beddoes's Selected Poetry; he has also published on George Darley, John Keats and Mary Shelley.