Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
239
Language
English
Published
Jan 11, 2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1282028537
ISBN-13
9781282028531
Description
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) is a latter-day Jacobean, the author of blank verse plays and poems which are as bold, wild and fresh as they are archaic in manner. We read his plays less for character and drama than for the miracles that occur in their language. He is a poet of fragments. His mastery of lyric and ballad make his work immediately accessible; an obsession with death aligns him with the Decadents.