Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
Born: Jun 30, 1803 AD
Died: 1849 AD, at 45 years of age.
Nationality:
English
Categories:
Poets
1803 - Born on the 30th of June in Clifton, Somerset, England.
- Educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford.
1821 - Published The Improvisatore, which he afterwards endeavoured to suppress.
1822 - Published The Brides' Tragedy a blank verse drama.
1824 - Went to Göttingen to study medicine, motivated by his hope of discovering physical evidence of a human spirit.
- Expelled, and then went to Würzburg to complete his training.
- Became involved with radical politics; this got him into trouble.
1833 - Deported from Bavaria.
1840 - He leave Zürich, where he had settled.
1846 - Returned to England before going back to Germany.
1849 - Committed suicide on 26th of January by poison at Basel at the age of 45.
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