Death's Jest-Book and Other Writings

'If there were dreams to sell
What would you buy?'

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was among the most talented writers of the Romantic age. A prodigiously gifted poet and dramatist, he already had two published volumes to his name and seemed set to assume a role at the vanguard of English letters when, in 1825, he left England to pursue anatomical studies at the University of Göttingen. He continued to write while overseas, treating his great themes of love, death, and nature, and attempti...