1st Edition
Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
By Michael Bradshaw
Copyright 2001
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
356 Pages
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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49) was a powerful poet of the English Romantic period, who has been and is still strangely neglected by critics. His macabre blank verse dramatic writings and his delicately balanced lyrics have both won ardent admirers such as Browning, Gosse, Pound and Christopher Ricks. Yet there are formal and generic problems in Beddoes's... Read more
Immortality in the early dramas; scattered limbs - quest and fragmentation; resurrection songs - Beddoes and the body; afterlife and afterthought - ironic revisions of Death's Jest Book; last things; epilogue - the dance of death
Biography
Michael Bradshaw
