The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
1803–49, English poet and dramatist. After graduating from Oxford, he studied medicine and anatomy at Göttingen. His writings, inclined toward the macabre and grotesque, include The Improvisatore (1821; three stories in verse) and two plays, The Bride’s Tragedy (1822) and Death’s Jest-Book (1850). The first collected edition of his poems appeared posthumously in 1851.
