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''¦ \ f ¦ " - vc-it > M $ prides Tragedy . ByT . L . Beddoes . 1822 . 2 . 7 % Jew ofArragon . By Thomas Wade . 1830 . 3 ; Joseph and his Brethren . A Scriptural Drama . 1824 .
i The Bride ' s Tragedy , 'by Thomas Lovel Beddoes , of Pembroke College , Oxford , has been published 15 years . Its author was a minor , and his work , which is one of extraordinary merit , having rarely been surpassed in its tenderness and pathos , and power of exciting the emotions both of pity and horror , has remained up to this period comparatively unknown . Mr Beddoes did not write with a view to the stage , from a conviction
of the futility of su £ h an attempt in its modern state . His tragedy has one grand defect in the principal of its construction , but with some alteration it would act well . It is rich in poetry and glowing imagery . We take its opening words as an example : —
;¦ " Hesperus ( alone ) . Now eve has strewn the sun ' s wide biljowy couch With rose-red feathers moulted from her wing ; Still , scanty-sprinkled clouds , like lagging sheep , Some golden-Jeec ^ d , some streaked with delicate pink , Are creeping iijvinei welkin , and behind
The wind their boisterous shepherd , whistling drives them , From $ ie drear w 4 emess of night to drink Antipodean noon /'— : p . 1 .. - There is not much attempt at the development of minor characters , the interest being excited more by the passions arid train ofcircumstances leading on to the tragic result in the : tvw > principal characters , than by the other individuals in is
¦ '¦ wj ^ Haffc involved them . Hesperus youngV excitable , and impulsive rather than impassioned ; imaginative and easily brought tpt ( £# & $$ 9 pC ej ^ ption ^ and ^ weak in all things except in $ 4 lflshnes 9 . He is of aristoccatio birth > and having * forgotten Bis early love , which was bestowed on a noble lidy , on his union "With whom was to depend his w'hole fortune , he has privately
iharriea Jtlonoel , a beautiful girl ot popr knd obscure parentage ^ The drama opens with a scene between them in tfieir e ^ rfv ^ ys of love and happiness , and it is a yery sweet c ^ ne ,, refifyejfi # p d de-Hcate throughout . He j ^ iyes ' , tykf to ( gp . to his tpr ^ ly ¦ , home , and finds his father imprisoned for want of the wealth hi » maifiage with the rich OHma ' i /^ al'i have sicured ; is reminded of her , and urged to compl ^ t ^> th $ ^ iftiace he used to long for ; and his unstable soul begins to weary of floribel . He has no
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/22/
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