Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1
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147
1890
English
- POEMS COLLECTED IN 1851: Alfarabi
- The Romance of the Lily
- Pygmalion
- Lines written in a Blank Leaf of the "Prometheus Unbound"
- Sonnet
- Letter to B.W.Procter,Esq.
- Another Letter to the Same
- The Boding Dreams
- Song of a Maid whose Love is Dead
- The Ghost's Moonshine
- From the German
- The Phantom-Wooer
- A Dirge
- Another Dirge (for a young maiden)
- Bridal Serenade
- Dirge
- Dirge and Hymeneal
- Dial-Thoughts
- Dream-Pedlary
- Ballad of Human Life
- Song on the Water
- Love-in-Idleness
- The Reason Why
- The Two Archers
- The Runaway
- Song on the Water
- Alpine Spirit's Song
- Song
- Song of the Stygian Naiades
- The Lily of the Valley
- A Lament
- Dirge
- Epitaph
- The Tree of Life
- The New-Born Star
- Threnody
- Lines Written at Geneva
- Stanzas
- Lines Written in Switzerland
- Doomesday
- Threnody
- POEMS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED: The Old Ghost
- Written in Album at Clifton
- Sonnet to Zoë King
- Fragment
- The Flowery Alchemist
- Fragment
- Lord Alcohol
- The Oviparous Tailor
- Silenus in Proteus
- Song
- MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Comet
- Quatorzains: I. To Perfume
- II. Thoughts
- III. A Rivulet
- IV. To Sound
- V. To Night
- VI. A Fantastic Simile
- VII. Another
- VIII. To Silence
- IX. To My Lyre
- X. To Poesy
- XI. A Clock striking at Midnight
- To a Bunch of Grapes
The English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton in Bristol and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He later studied medicine at Göttingen in Germany before leading an itinerant life in Germany and Switzerland and committing suicide at the age of 45.
His early verse drama The Bride's Tragedy was well reviewed but later attempts at dramas were mostly left incomplete. His Collected Poems were published 2 years after his death. The poems read here are from a later edition of his complete Poetical Works published in 1890 by Edmund Gosse. They are in 3 sections: Poems Collected in 1851, Poems Hitherto Unpublished, and Miscellaneous Poems.
Beddoes had a preoccupation with death, he studied medicine in the hope of finding clinical evidence of the existence of an immortal soul, and this preoccupation influenced much of his work.
Lytton Strachey described Beddoes as "the last Elizabethan", and said that he was distinguished not for his "illuminating views on men and things, or for a philosophy", but for the quality of his expression. - Summary by Alan Mapstone
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