Surname: Beddoes Forename(s): Thomas Lovell b. 30 June 1803. d. 26 January 1849. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, satirist, playwright, and physician. Father was Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808).
Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and studied medicine at Göttingen and Würzburg.
Great admirer of Percy Shelley and helped to publish his Posthumous Poems (1824). Known for his radical political poems and speeches in Germany. Author of
The Improvisatore (1821, which he later suppressed), The Bride’s Tragedy (1822), The Death’s Jest (1855, published posthumously). Died a victim of suicide. Biographical information:
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