Poetry is a horrible waste of time
Frances Wilson: Thomas Lovell Beddoes, 28 October 1999
Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Selected Poetry
edited by Judith Higgens and Michael Bradshaw.
Carcanet, 116 pp., £8.95, June 1999,1 85754 408 0 Show More
edited by Judith Higgens and Michael Bradshaw.
Carcanet, 116 pp., £8.95, June 1999,
“... out and the hollowed books returned to the shelves). Beddoes would have been relieved to know that Judith Higgens and Michael Bradshaw have included none of The Improvisatore in their new and revised selection of his poetry. From The Brides’ Tragedy we get only highlights, but enough to see Beddoes’s developing skill as a poet. The intensity of his ... ”
