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Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803-49, English poet and dramatist. After graduating from Oxford, he studied medicine and anatomy at Göttingen. His writings, inclined toward the macabre and grotesque, include The Improvisatore (1821; three stories in verse) and two plays, The Bride's Tragedy (1822) and Death's Jest-Book (1850). The first collected edition of his poems appeared posthumously in 1851.

Bibliography: See his complete works (ed. with an introduction by H. W. Donner, 1950).

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–49), published in 1821 The Improvisatore and in 1822 The Bride's Tragedy. His most important work, Death's Jest-Book, or the Fool's Tragedy (1850), appeared after his death by suicide at Basle. It is in blank verse, heavily influenced by Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy, and shows Beddoes's obsession with the macabre, the supernatural, and bodily decay. He is now best known for his shorter pieces, such as ‘Dream Pedlary’ and the lyrics which appear in Death's Jest-Book.

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