Phantom-Wooer: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Web Site | Critical Response

AGNES REPPLIER, 1891

“The quality of youth is still more distinctly discernible in some of Thomas Beddoes’ dazzling little songs, stolen straight from the heart of the sixteenth century, and lustrous with that golden light which set so long ago. It is not in spirit only, nor in sentiment, that this resemblance exists; the words, the imagery, the swaying music, the teeming fancies of the younger poet, mark him as one strayed from another age, and wandering companionless under alien skies.”

(English Love-Songs, “Points of View,” p. 60)

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