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THE LITERARY CAREER OF THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849) BY THE LATE DR. GERALD MCDANIEL

WORKS BY BEDDOES
(in chronological order)

"The Comet." The [London] Morning Post. July 15, 1819.

The Improvisatore. London: J. Vincent, 1821.

The Brides' Tragedy. London: Rivington, 1822.

"The Romance of the Lily." The Album (August 1823).

"[A translation of Schiller's] Philosophic Letters." Oxford Quarterly Magazine (June 1825).

Death's Jest-Book, or the Fool's Tragedy. London: William Pickering, 1850.


COLLECTIONS OF BEDDOES' WORKS
(in chronological order)

The Poems, posthumous and collected, of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Thomas Forbes Kelsall, ed. 2 vols. London: William Pickering, 1851. With Memoir.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Edmund Gosse, ed. London: J.M. Dent, 1890. With Memoir.

The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Edmund Gosse, ed. London: E. Mathews & J. Lane; New York: Macmillan, 1894. Reprinted New York: B. Blom, 1971.

The Poems of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Ramsay Colles, ed. London: G. Routledge; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1907.

The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Edmund Gosse, ed. London: Fanfrolico, 1928.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes: An Anthology. F.L. Lucas, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1932.

The Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. H.W. Donner, ed. London: Oxford U P, 1935. Reprinted New York: AMS, 1978.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Plays and Poems. H.M. Donner, ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950.

Selected Poems. Judith Higgens, ed. Manchester: Carsanet Press, 1976.


BOOK-LENGTH STUDIES OF BEDDOES (in chronological order)

Snow, Royall H. Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Eccentric and Poet. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928.

Donner, H.W. The Browning Box. London: Oxford U P, 1935.

Donner, H.W. Thomas Lovell Beddoes: The Making of a Poet. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1935.

Thompson, James R. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Twayne English Author Series. Boston: Twayne, 1985.


BOOKS CONTAINING STUDIES/COMMENTARIES ON BEDDOES
(in chronological order)

Stoddard, Richard Henry. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." Under the Evening Lamp. New York: Scribner's, 1892.

Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1830. London: Edward Arnold, 1912.

Symond, Arthur. Figures of Several Centuries. London: Constable, 1916.

Hearn, Lafcadio. Life and Literature. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1917.

Pierce, Frederick E. Currents and Eddies in the English Romantic Generation. New Haven: Yale U P, 1918.

Meynell, Alice. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." The Second Person Singular and Other Essays. London: Oxford U P, 1922.

Strachey, Lytton. "The Last Elizabethan." Books and Characters. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922.

Saintsbury, George. A History of 19th Century Literature. New York: Macmillan, 1930.

Blunden, Edmund. "Beddoes and His Contemporaries." Votive Tablets. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries, 1932.

Gregory, Horace. "On the Gothic Imagination and the Survival of Thomas Lovell Beddoes." The Shield of Achilles. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1944.

Heath-Stubbs, John. The Darkling Plain. London: Eyre & Spottiswood, 1950.

Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company. London: Faber & Faber, 1961.

Frye, Northrop. A Study of English Romanticism. New York: Random House, 1968. Reprinted Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982. Includes
studies of Death's Jest-Book, along with studies of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and Keats' Endymion.

Bush, Douglas. Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry. New York: Norton, 1963.

Jack, Ian. English Literature 1815-1832. Vol. 10 in Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1963.

Saintsbury, George. A History of English Prosody. London: Macmillan, 1910. Vol. 3.

Nicholl, Allerdyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1966.

New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3: 409-411. Bibliography up to 1967.

Wilmer, Eleanor. Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1975.


SELECTED BEDDOES CRITICISM (in chronological order)

Monthly Review, or Literary Journal, 95 (Jun 1821): 218-219.

Monthly Review, or Literary Journal, 100 (Jan 1823): 96-97.

Procter, Bryan Waller ["Barry Cornwall"]. "The Brides' Tragedy." London Magazine, 7 (Feb 1823): 169-172.

Procter, Bryan Waller ["Barry Cornwall"]. "A Letter from One of the 'Dramatists of the Day." London Magazine, 9 (Mar 1824): 272-276.

Darley, George ["John Lacy"]. "A Sixth Letter to the Dramatists of the Day," London Magazine, 8 (Dec 1823): 645-652.

Darley, George ["John Lacy"]. "Postscript to the Letter to the Dramatists," London Magazine, 9 (Jan 1824): 60-64.

Darley, George ["John Lacy"]. "John Lacy's Reply to Terentius Secundus, a ‘Dramatist of the Day.'" London Magazine, 9 (May 1824): 469-473.

The Athenaeum, 5 Jan 1833: 1.

Forster, John. "Death's Jest-Book, or the Fool's Tragedy." The Examiner, 20 Jul 1850: 461-463.

The Athenaeum, 26 Oct 1850: 1115-1116.

The Athenaeum, 20 Sep 1851: 989-990.

Forster, John. [A Review of The Collected Poems of 1851.] The Examiner, 27 Sep 1851: 611-615.

"Mister Buttle's Review." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 89 (Oct 1856): 447-449.

Kelsall, Thomas Forbes. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." Fortnightly Review, 13 (Jul 1872): 51-75.

Hilliard, Kate. "A Strayed Singer." Lippincott's Magazine, 12 (Nov 1873): 550-557.

Gosse, Edmund. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." The Athenaeum, 20 Oct 1883: 445-455.

Gosse, Edmund. "A Prose Romance by T.L. Beddoes." Times Literary Supplement, 11 Mar 1890: 97.

"The Poems of Thomas Lovell Beddoes." The Saturday Review, 29 Nov 1890: 620-621.

Crosse, Mrs. Andrew. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." Temple Bar, 101 (Mar 1894): 357-370.

Hannigan, D.F. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes: A 'Forgotten Oxford Poet.'" Westminster Review, 149 (May 1898): 484-492.

Miller, Barnette. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." The Sewanee Review, 9 (Jul 1903): 306-336.

Rickword, Edgell. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." The London Mercury, 9 (Dec 1923): 162-174.

Bayley, A.R. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." Times Literary Supplement, 28 Mar 1924: 260.

Pierce, Frederick E. "Beddoes and the Continental Romanticists." Philological Quarterly, 6 (1927): 123-132.

Church, Richard. "Beddoes: The Last of the Alchemists." The Spectator, 9 Feb 1929: 188-189.

Blunden, Edmund. "The English Vision." Times Literary Supplement, 2 Nov 1933: 737.

Meyerstein, E.M.W. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes." English, 3 (Spring 1940): 8-15.

Johnson, Hiram Kellogg, M.D. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes: A Psychiatric Study." Psychiatric Quarterly, 17 (1943): 446-469.

Howarth, R.G. "Two Poems of Beddoes." Notes and Queries, 20 Sep 1947: 410-411.

Coxe, Louis. "Beddoes: The Mask of Parody." Hudson Review, 6 (Summer 1953): 257-265.

Donner, H.W. "Echoes of Beddoesian Rambles." Studia Neophilologica, 33 (1961): 219-264.

Hoyt, Charles Alva. "Theme and Imagery in the Poetry of T.L. Beddoes." Studia Neophilologica, 35 (1963): 85-103.

Donner, H.W. "T.L. Beddoes to Lenhard Tobler: Eight German Letters." Studia Neophilologica, 35 (1963): 227-255.

Nickerson, Charles C. "Beddoes' Readings in Bodley." Studia Neophilologica, 36 (1964): 261-265.

Donner, H.W. "Two German Poems Attributed to T.L. Beddoes." Studia Neophilologica, 39 (1967): 17-37.

Harrex, Anne. "'Death's Jest-Book and the German Contribution: Part I--Literary and Philosophical Influences in 'Death's Jest-Book.'" Studia Neophilologica, 39 (1967), 15-17.

Harrex, Anne. "'Death's Jest-Book and the German Contribution: Part II--Romantic Irony and 'Death's Jest-Book.'" Studia Neophilologica, 39 (1967), 302-318.

Agar, John. "Isbrand and T.L. Beddoes' Aspiring Hero." Studia Neophilologica, 45 (1973), 372-391.


THESES AND DISSERTATIONS (in chronological order)

Goode, Donald W. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes: A Critical Study of His Major Works." Ph.D. diss. Ohio State University, 1968.

McDaniel, Gerald G. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes and His Literary Context: A Critical History and Analysis." Ph.D. diss. University of Texas at Austin, 1976.


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