Death's Jest BookThis book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death. |
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ADALMAR Alan Halsey AMALA Arab Art thou ATHULF Beddoes's bless blood bones breath Brides brother critical dance dare dead death Death's Jest-Book deeds DJ-B dost doth drama drink Duke Melveric Duke of Münsterberg earth Enter ISBRAND Enter ZIBA Exeunt Exit eyes farewell fellow flowers fool George Darley ghost Göttingen grave H.W. Donner Harpagus hast thou hath haunt hear heart heaven hope hour KATE Kelsall lady leave lips literary live look MANDRAKE MARIO Methinks MICHAEL BRADSHAW Münsterberg murder never night o'er pale pilgrim poet poetry quiet Resurrection Songs revenge Romantic SCENE Selected Poems edited sepulchre SIBYLLA SIEGFRIED slave sleep Song soul speak spirit stars sweet tears thee There's thine Thomas Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes thou art thou hast thou'rt thought to-night TORWALD tragedy University of Göttingen unto villain voice weep whisper Wilt thou wine WOLFRAM words writing