Thomas Lovell Beddoes "Doomsday" Gothic Poem Animation Movie
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Here is a virtual movie of the Victorian Gothic poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849) reading his unforgetable poem "Doomsday"
Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803 - 1849 romantic poet and dramatist was born in Clifton, now part of Greater Bristol southwest England. His father, Thomas Beddoes, was a radical liberal minded physician remembered in medical history as the pioneer of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)..He grew up surrounded by his fathers world of anatomical studies (some say this led to his pre-occupation with death) and in the company of his fathers friends amongst whom were many luminaries of science and literature..He studied medicine himself in several Germanic medical schools but his often drunken rowdy behaviour coupled with his radical political activism and outspoken liberal opinions led to his expulsion. His unpredictable behaviour led to many of his friends and family believing him to be mad...In 1848 after contracting a desease possibly from an infected body he had come into contact with in a Frankfurt hospital and a first suicide attempt leading to the partial amputation of one of his legs for gangrene In despair he killed himself through posioning in 1849..by his body was left a note to one of his friends in which he described himself as "food for what I am good for—worms."....
The poem is read superbly by publisher Alan Halsey for the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society and the image used was painted by British artist Rosalind Bliss in 2008 especialy for this animation..A big thankyou to John Beddoes for his help in making this video possible....
You can find out more about Thomas Lovell Beddoes by visiting the Phantom Wooer website at..
http://www.phantomwooer.org/
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video sound recording copyright Jim Clark 2008
Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803 - 1849 romantic poet and dramatist was born in Clifton, now part of Greater Bristol southwest England. His father, Thomas Beddoes, was a radical liberal minded physician remembered in medical history as the pioneer of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)..He grew up surrounded by his fathers world of anatomical studies (some say this led to his pre-occupation with death) and in the company of his fathers friends amongst whom were many luminaries of science and literature..He studied medicine himself in several Germanic medical schools but his often drunken rowdy behaviour coupled with his radical political activism and outspoken liberal opinions led to his expulsion. His unpredictable behaviour led to many of his friends and family believing him to be mad...In 1848 after contracting a desease possibly from an infected body he had come into contact with in a Frankfurt hospital and a first suicide attempt leading to the partial amputation of one of his legs for gangrene In despair he killed himself through posioning in 1849..by his body was left a note to one of his friends in which he described himself as "food for what I am good for—worms."....
The poem is read superbly by publisher Alan Halsey for the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society and the image used was painted by British artist Rosalind Bliss in 2008 especialy for this animation..A big thankyou to John Beddoes for his help in making this video possible....
You can find out more about Thomas Lovell Beddoes by visiting the Phantom Wooer website at..
http://www.phantomwooer.org/
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video sound recording copyright Jim Clark 2008
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