"Toms Laocoon": a newly discovered poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.(Critical Essay)

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Baker, John Haydn | Copyright information

ON AUGUST 10, 1821, KEATS HAD BEEN BURIED IN THE PROTESTANT 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, near Worcester. He was then eighteen years old and a highly intelligent youth of considerable promise. An undergraduate student at his father's old Oxford college, Pembroke, he was already ...

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