A reader's guide to the narrative and lyric poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes / Rodney Stenning Edgecombe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, English--19th century.

Poets, English.

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849--Criticism and interpretation.

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Beddoes poses a peculiar problem for critics and scholars who wish to redress the marginal position that he occupies in the Romantic canon - a problem seemingly unique to him, and created in part by his misconception of his own strengths as a writer. An extremely good poet who, had things turned out differently, might have functioned as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, he fatally divided his attention between verse and medicine, a discipline that by his own admission (made in the poem composed for Zoë King) served to wither his creative gift. This fission of energy was bad enough, bu

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8405-7

OCLC:

925304528