Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, born at Clifton, son of Thomas Beddoes; an enthusiastic student of science; a dramatic poet, author of “Bride's Tragedy”; got into trouble for his Radical opinions; his principal work, “Death's Jest-Book, or the Fool's Tragedy,” highly esteemed by Barry Cornwall (1803‒1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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