Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Thomas Lovell Beddoes ( born July 20, 1803 in Clifton, † January 26, 1849 in Basel) was an English poet.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton, England, the son of the naturalist Thomas Beddoes ( 1760-1808 ). He first came to school in Bath, later in the Charterhouse in London and entered 1820 as a student at Pembroke College, Oxford. There he soon attracted by his later suppressed by him poetry collection The improvisational gates (1821 ) and the dramatic composition The bride 's tragedy (1822 ) sensation.

In the latter especially he proved, despite many oddities dramatic power, passion and depth of thought, the legitimate high hopes; but inside unhappy and full of restless wandering life, Beddoes has the same equaled only imperfectly. In order to devote himself entirely to his favorite sciences, physiology and anatomy, he went in 1825 to Göttingen, and later in Würzburg, then in possession of a considerable fortune, a life of wandering, sometimes lingering in Strasbourg and Zurich, soon in Frankfurt or Berlin led.

In 1846 he returned to England. In 1847 he was, however, again in Frankfurt, where he took the most active share in the freedom movement of 1848. As a result of a fall from his horse, in which he broke both his legs, he had to in Basel, where he had create, amputated due to the change of air. Depressed he committed still in hospital on January 26, 1849 suicide.

On poetic products Beddoes has only a dramatic poem: Death's jestbook, or the fool 's tragedy, leave, yet whimsical than the earlier works, but at the same time more than this full of surprising flashes of genius. His poetic discount appeared under the title: Poems, with a memoir, 1851, 2 vols, and also contains the above Death's jestbook a series of lyrical poems schwermutsvoller and more dramatic fragments.