1803 - 1849.

English poet and dramatist.

Graduated from Oxford.

Then went on to study medicine and anatomy at Göttingen.

Spent most of his adult life in Germany and Switzerlandwhere he was repeatedly in trouble for his revolutionary ideas.

His first published work was a collection of tales in verse, The Improvisatore (1821).

Shared the Romantic interest in the Jacobean dramatists.

He sought to revive drama in their spirit with The Bride's Tragedy (1822).

Continued to revise his second play, Death's Jest-Book until his death.

Was published posthumously in 1850, as were his Collected Poems (1851).

Beddoes died by suicide.



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