Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) was an English poet and dramatist, associated with the later Romantic period. Born in Clifton, Bristol, he was the son of the physician and chemist Thomas Beddoes. He studied at Charterhouse and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he began publishing verse and developed a fascination with Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Beddoes spent much of his adult life on the European continent and trained in medicine, studying at Göttingen and later working in Germany and Switzerland. His reputation rests chiefly on the macabre, lyrical verse drama *Death’s Jest-Book*, published posthumously in 1850.