Death's Jest Book

• Author(s): Michael Bradshaw,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 160
• ISBN_10: 1000158608
  ISBN_13: 9781000158601
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Death & Dying , Poetry / General , Literary Collections / General ,

Description:... This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.