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Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1

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 They are in 3 sections: Poems Collected in 1851, Poems Hitherto Unpublished, and Miscellaneous Poems.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

Year of Publication: 1890Genres: Lyric , Single author

Running Time: 02 hours 43 minutes 48 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	POEMS COLLECTED IN 1851: Alfarabi Alan Mapstone	13:11
2	The Romance of the Lily Algy Pug	17:24
3	Pygmalion Alan Mapstone	18:20
4	Lines written in a Blank Leaf of the "Prometheus Unbound" Bruce Kachuk	1:31
5	Sonnet Algy Pug	1:14
6	Letter to B.W.Procter,Esq. Alan Mapstone	7:12
7	Another Letter to the Same jonbuder	4:35
8	The Boding Dreams Algy Pug	3:10
9	Song of a Maid whose Love is Dead dc	1:34
10	The Ghost's Moonshine Algy Pug	2:11
11	From the German jonbuder	1:17
12	The Phantom-Wooer jonbuder	1:09
13	A Dirge Bruce Kachuk	1:13
14	Another Dirge (for a young maiden) Bruce Kachuk	1:00
15	Bridal Serenade Nalifa	1:06
16	Dirge Nalifa	0:43
17	Dirge and Hymeneal Alan Mapstone	2:23
18	Dial-Thoughts jonbuder	2:04
19	Dream-Pedlary jonbuder	2:12
20	Ballad of Human Life dc	1:40
21	Song on the Water ShrimpPhish	1:47
22	Love-in-Idleness ShrimpPhish	2:39
23	The Reason Why jonbuder	2:02
24	The Two Archers jonbuder	2:54
25	The Runaway Felicia Molyneux	0:59
26	Song on the Water Sonali Ekka	0:39
27	Alpine Spirit's Song PaulGrancio	2:02
28	Song Alan Mapstone	2:13
29	Song of the Stygian Naiades DanaAnn NiteOwLNanny	1:54
30	The Lily of the Valley jonbuder	1:44
31	A Lament jonbuder	0:38
32	Dirge Sonali Ekka	0:55
33	Epitaph Am Pab	0:43
34	The Tree of Life ShrimpPhish	1:50
35	The New-Born Star ShrimpPhish	2:04
36	Threnody Larry Wilson	1:07
37	Lines Written at Geneva David Lawrence	2:32
38	Stanzas David Lawrence	1:14
39	Lines Written in Switzerland F1nBr8d	5:07
40	Doomesday Felicia Molyneux	4:12
41	Threnody David Lawrence	0:58
42	POEMS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED: The Old Ghost Alan Mapstone	1:25
43	Written in Album at Clifton Alan Mapstone	6:24
44	Sonnet to Zoë King Am Pab	1:11
45	Fragment Anthony Will	0:48
46	The Flowery Alchemist Anthony Will	1:18
47	Fragment Anthony Will	0:35
48	Lord Alcohol Anthony Will	1:35
49	The Oviparous Tailor April6090	2:16
50	Silenus in Proteus ShrimpPhish	1:24
51	Song ShrimpPhish	1:17
52	MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Comet Larry Wilson	2:33
53	Quatorzains: I. To Perfume Alan Mapstone	1:26
54	II. Thoughts Larry Wilson	1:03
55	III. A Rivulet Anthony Will	1:07
56	IV. To Sound dc	2:03
57	V. To Night Owlivia	1:11
58	VI. A Fantastic Simile Anthony Will	1:09
59	VII. Another Owlivia	1:08
60	VIII. To Silence Larry Wilson	1:06
61	IX. To My Lyre dc	1:13
62	X. To Poesy Larry Wilson	1:08
63	XI. A Clock striking at Midnight Alan Mapstone	2:37
64	To a Bunch of Grapes Alan Mapstone	2:29