The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1, credited to Thomas Lovell Beddoes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1 by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton in Bristol and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He later studied medicine at Göttingen in Germany before leading an itinerant life in Germany and Switzerland and committing suicide at the age of 45. His early verse drama The Bride's Tragedy was well reviewed but later attempts at dramas were mostly left incomplete. His Collected Poems were published 2 years after his death. The poems read here are from a later edition of his complete Poetical Works published in 1890 by Edmund Gosse. They are in 3 sections: Poems Collected in 1851, Poems Hitherto Unpublished, and Miscellaneous Poems. Beddoes had a preoccupation with death, he studied medicine in the hope of finding clinical evidence of the existence of an immortal soul, and this preoccupation influenced much of his work. Lytton Strachey described Beddoes as "the last Elizabethan", and said that he was distinguished not for his "illuminating views on men and things, or for a philosophy", but for the quality of his expression. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1
• Author credits: Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 2:43:48

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 01 - POEMS COLLECTED IN 1851: Alfarabi — 13:11
2. 02 - The Romance of the Lily — 17:24
3. 03 - Pygmalion — 18:20
4. 04 - Lines written in a Blank Leaf of the "Prometheus Unbound" — 1:31
5. 05 - Sonnet — 1:14
6. 06 - Letter to B.W.Procter,Esq. — 7:12
7. 07 - Another Letter to the Same — 4:35
8. 08 - The Boding Dreams — 3:10
9. 09 - Song of a Maid whose Love is Dead — 1:34
10. 10 - The Ghost's Moonshine — 2:11
11. 11 - From the German — 1:17
12. 12 - The Phantom-Wooer — 1:09
13. 13 - A Dirge — 1:13
14. 14 - Another Dirge (for a young maiden) — 1:00
15. 15 - Bridal Serenade — 1:06
16. 16 - Dirge — 0:43
17. 17 - Dirge and Hymeneal — 2:23
18. 18 - Dial-Thoughts — 2:04
19. 19 - Dream-Pedlary — 2:12
20. 20 - Ballad of Human Life — 1:40
21. 21 - Song on the Water — 1:47
22. 22 - Love-in-Idleness — 2:39
23. 23 - The Reason Why — 2:02
24. 24 - The Two Archers — 2:54

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