Death's Jest Book

· Routledge
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160
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About this ebook

This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.

About the author

Michael Bradshaw is a lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University; he is the author of Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and co-editor of Beddoes's Selected Poetry; he has also published on George Darley, John Keats and Mary Shelley.

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