The Ivory Gate

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

ISBN 10: 1874400504 / ISBN 13: 9781874400509

Published by Rescript Books, 2010

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was an English poet and dramatist whose early play The Brides' Tragedy was highly praised. He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Würzburg, where his involvement in radical politics led to his deportation. He spent the rest of his life in Switzerland and Germany, continuing to write but showing only occasional and fleeting interest in publication. His celebrated drama Death's Jest-Book and his Collected Poems were published posthumously. This volume, edited and with an introduction by Alan Halsey, makes available separately for the first time the surviving text and fragments of Beddoes' unfinished work The Ivory Gate, together with a collection of his later poetry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ivory Gate
• Publisher: Rescript Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1874400504
• ISBN 13: 9781874400509
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 203W x 127H x 7D millimeters 203 millimeters width by 127 millimeters height by 7 millimeters depth
• Weight: 128 grams

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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was an English poet and dramatist whose early play The Brides' Tragedy was highly praised. He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Würzburg, where his involvement in radical politics led to his deportation. He spent the rest of his life in Switzerland and Germany, continuing to write but showing only occasional and fleeting interest in publication. His celebrated drama Death's Jest-Book and his Collected Poems were published posthumously. This volume, edited and with an introduction by Alan Halsey, makes available separately for the first time the surviving text and fragments of Beddoes' unfinished work The Ivory Gate, together with a collection of his later poetry.