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Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents by William Beckford of Fonthill by William Beckford, 1972-06 William Beckford of Fonthill: Writer, Traveller, Collector, Caliph 1760-1844, a Brief Narrative and Catalogue of an Exhibition to Mark the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Beckford's Birth by Howard B. Gotlieb, 1960 Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) by William Beckford, 2009-03-15 William Beckford: An English Fidalgo (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century) by Malcolm Jack, 1997-01 William Beckford And The New Millennium (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century) Vathek (Nonsuch Classics) by William Beckford, 2005-07-01 The Episodes of Vathek (Dedalus European Classics) by William Beckford, 1995-10 william Beckford of Fonthill writer, trraveller, collector, Caliph 1760-1844 by Howard Gotlieb, 1960 Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcoboca & Batalha by William Beckford, 1974-06 Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century)

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21. A Visit To Fonthill
    ed. Maxwell Steer The Grottoes of Fonthill Beckford's Tower, Bath Follies and FollyTowers William Beckford 17601844 An Eye for the Magnificent An Exhibition  
    http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/beckfor3.htm
    
    Extractions: Rictor Norton The images may take some time to load. In a lifespan of 83 years (September 1760 to May 1844) William Beckford had built up one of the world's largest collections of paintings, books, furniture and objets d'art and had housed it all in a country mansion the size of a cathedral. Beckford was immensely gifted, brilliantly educated and widely learned, a talented writer of fiction and travel books, a not insignificant landscape designer and composer of music (and incidentally a lively singer), a man of absolute integrity and perfect good taste, and, of course, the richest man in England. His wealth, his extravagance, his hatred of cant and mediocrity, and his scandalous reputation made him a legend in his own lifetime. In many ways both the legend and the reality rest upon society's vicious ostracism of him for being a homosexual. In 1784 the news broke that Beckford was having an affair with the young William Courtenay of Powderham. Beckford braved out the storm of abuse in the newspapers, but then fled to the continent. Upon his eventual return to England, Beckford secluded himself behind the eight-mile-long wall surrounding 519 acres of his estate at Fonthill Gifford. The Barrier, as it was called, was probably meant primarily to keep our hunters, for Beckford hated cruelty to animals. He then hired England's foremost architect, James Wyatt, to build a medieval abbey for him to live in. Fonthill Abbey was almost grotesquely vast : the tower of the Great Octagon soared upwards for 300 feet, and was so fantastically perpendicular that it collapsed several times, the final time in 1825 due to improper foundations.

22. The Beckford Project
    The Beckford Project. This webpage is dedicated to William Beckford (1760-1844),the English novelist, bibliophile, traveller, collector, and builder.  
    http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/beck.htm

23. The Beckford Society
    William Beckford (17601844) is chiefly remembered as the author of Vathek andbuilder of the greatest of all architectural follies, Fonthill Abbey.  
    http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/becksoc.htm

24. Les Baladins De La Tradition
    Translate this page William Beckford L'un des plus importants dossiers en langue françaiseactuellement en ligne sur William Beckford (1760-1844).  
    http://www.bldt.net/Om/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3

25. Les Baladins De La Tradition
    Translate this page Le sanglier des Gordon ! ! ! Je découvre un autre auteur et un autre livre William Beckford of Fonthill (1760-1844) de Fatma Mahmoud, édité en 1971.  
    http://www.bldt.net/Om/article.php3?id_article=30

26. Historic Properties & Collections - Conservation | The National Trust
    NT home historic properties collections loans uk and international exhibitionloans 2001 William Beckford 17601844 at the center of enlightenment.  
    http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/historicproperties/index.cfm?page_id=99

27. Historic Properties & Collections - Conservation | The National Trust
    Item lent Peace, Joan Syrett (sampler) go to printer friendly version,William Beckford 17601844 At the center of Enlightenment.  
    http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/historicproperties/index.cfm?page_id=64

28. BECKFORD-GGIII.html
    CARNERO, Guillermo. William Beckford (17601844) o el erotismo de fina stampa. 0297. Beckford, William (1760-1844) In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, Ed.  
    http://www.pagedepot.com/thesicklytaper/BECKFORD-GGIII.HTM
    
    Extractions: ALAMOUDI , Carmen. "Un Sourire dechire: L'Ironie dans le Vathek de Beckford." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8:3 (1996): 401-[data [A lacerating smile: Irony in Beckford's Vathek ALEXANDER , Boyd. "William Beckford: Man of Taste." 0281 . "The Decay of Beckford's Genius" In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. . "William Beckford of Fonthill." 0283 England's Wealthiest Son: A Study of William Beckford. ARMOUR , Richard W. "The Caliph of Fonthill." 0286 BABB , James T. "William Beckford of Fonthill." 0203 BARIDON . "VathekMegalomaniac Caliph or Pundit of the Avant Garde?" In BELL , C. F. "William Beckford." 0288 BELLOC , Hilaire. "On Vathek " In A Conversation with an Angel and Other Essays. BENRAHHAL-SERGHINI , El-Habib. "The Road to Istakhar: A Critical Study of the Text and Context of William Beckford's ' Vathek ' and the ' Episodes,' 1760-1844." Dissertation Abstracts International 55:9 (1995): 2839A (Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen). Focuses on the "ideology of power" in

29. Antiquarian Books Catalogue
    69, JONSON, B. / A. BEARDSLEY, ILLUS. 70, Beckford, William (17601844)Beckford, W. 71, CHAPMAN, G. 72, 357pp.  
    http://www.kitazawa.co.jp/ANTIQU/386/I02E.htm

30. Antiquarian Books Catalogue
    (?, 1962) ?t ? NF02104 \35,000. Beckford, William (1760-1844) 69 Beckford, W. Vathek An Arabian Tale.  
    http://www.kitazawa.co.jp/ANTIQU/392/C02001E.htm

31. Vathek And Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader Published By Pickering & Cha
    William Beckford (17601844) inherited a large fortune and, at the age of nineteen,went on a tour of Holland, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy.  
    http://www.pickeringchatto.com/vathek.htm
    
    Extractions: A William Beckford Reader Edited by Malcolm Jack Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek , an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. William Beckford (1760-1844) inherited a large fortune and, at the age of nineteen, went on a tour of Holland, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy. He was a Member of Parliament and a traveller who spent large sums of money collecting rare books, curiosities and paintings for the embellishment of his Gothic Extravaganza, Fonthill Abbey, where he lived in opulent seclusion until forced by bankruptcy to sell it in 1822. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose. 1 85196 049 X: £39.95/$59.95

32. Hennepin County Library - Online Catalog
    Beckey, Fred W., 1921, 2. Beckford, Devon Malik, 1. Beckford, John, 1760-1844,0. See Beckford, William, 1760-1844. 1. Beckford, Robert, 1. Previous 10 Next10.  
    http://www.hclib.org/pub/ipac/link2ipac.cfm?term=Beckett Samuel&index=AA

33. William Beckford
    William Beckford (17601844). Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick. Straightremnant of the spiry birchen bough, That over the streamlet wont  
    http://www.sonnets.org/beckford.htm
    
    Extractions: William Beckford (1760-1844) Straight remnant of the spiry birchen bough, That over the streamlet wont perchance to quake Thy many twinkling leaves and, bending low, Beheld thy white rind dancing on the lake How doth thy present state, poor stick! awake My pathosfor, alas! even stripped as thou May be my beating breast, if ever forsake Philisto this poor heart; and break his vow. So musing on, I fare with many a sigh And meditating then on times long past, To thee, lorn pole! I look with tearful eye, As all beside the floor-soiled pail thou art cast; And my sad thoughts, while I behold thee twirled, Turn on the twistings of this troublous world.

34. Gilbert Collection
    home director's choice Beckford cabinet. One of a pair of magnificentcabinets made for William Beckford (17601844). Special loan  
    http://www.gilbert-collection.org.uk/directorschoice/
    
    Extractions: Beckford cabinet One of a pair of magnificent cabinets made for William Beckford (1760-1844) Special loan: the loan of this exhibit has been made possible with the generous assisitance of Mrs Edmund J Safra. William Beckford, the creator of the Gothick Fonthill Abbey and a most discriminating connoisseur, had this gorgeous cabinet made in Paris around 1825. It is richly encrusted with hardstones and luxuriously mounted in gilt bronze and incorporates panels of hardstones made at the celebrated Gobelins workshops in Paris in the late 17th Century. The cabinet embodies the opulent French style - colourful and intensely decorative - that was made fashionable by patrons such as the Prince Regent. The loan of the Beckford cabinet gives visitors to the Gilbert Collection a rare opportunity to see one of the most sumptious pieces ever commissioned by a British patron in Paris and to compare it with the opulent clock cabinet, also decorated with hardstone panels, commissioned by Beckford's son-in-law, the Duke of Hamilton, and with other material ordered by Beckford now in the Gilbert Collection. previous choice home director's choice the collection what's on visiting us learning ... quick finder

35. Catalogue Of The Papers Of Boyd Alexander (1913-80), Relating To
    misc. e. 1236; Portuguese c. 1). Personal names (NCA Rules). Alexander Boyd 19131980 writer Beckford William 1760-1844 author, MP, art collector.  
    http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/alexander-beckford/ale
    
    Extractions: Extent: 46 shelfmarks The papers comprise working notes, mainly relating to Alexander's published works on Beckford; drafts of Alexander's unpublished works on Beckford, with related notes; and correspondence, press cuttings, prints, photocopies, articles, lectures, and printed items. Bequeathed by Alexander, together with: a number of printed books from Beckford's library ; a copy of Marcel May

36. Associates And Influences Of Clark Ashton Smith
    Baudelaire, Charles (18211867) Charles Pierre Baudelaire Biography; Beckford,William (1760-1844)William Beckford The Fool of FonthillWilliam Beckford's  
    http://www.eldritchdark.com/misc/associates.html
    
    Extractions: Search: W ritings A rt ... Miscellaneous Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) [ Charles Pierre Baudelaire Biography Beckford, William (1760-1844)[ William Beckford: The Fool of Fonthill William Beckford's Fonthill Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1818) [ SELECTED POETRY OF THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?) [ Ambrose Bierce Blavatsky, H. P. (1831-1891)The Secret Doctrine [ Theosophy Library Online Browne, Thomas (1605-1682) [ Sir Thomas Browne page Chambers, Robert W. (1865-1933)[ Robert W. Chambers and the King in Yellow Dunsany, Lord (1878-1957) [ Lord Dunsany Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) [ GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872) [ Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904) [ Lafcadio Hearn Biography Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) [ Electronic resources related to G.M. Hopkins Huysmans, de Joris-Karl (1848-1866) [ Keats, John (1795-1821) [ Selected Poetry of John Keats Khayyam, Omar (Abu al-Fath Omar ben Ibrahim al-Khayyam)(1050-1122) [ The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam Lindsay, Vachel (1879–1931) [ Vachel Lindsay Lovecraft, H.P (1890-1937) [

37. Ionica.org.uk : William Beckford : Introduction
    William Beckford (17601844) is best known as an eccentric writer,collector, and architect, but his interests also embraced music.  
    http://newfred.com/ionica/beckford-001.htm
    
    Extractions: William Beckford (1760-1844) is best known as an eccentric writer, collector, and architect, but his interests also embraced music. His compositions, currently housed in the Bodleian Library, have now been edited by Maxwell Steer, with assistance from me. To view full details of the edition, click here . For more information on Beckford, and for further links, visit the Beckfordiana site

38. Beckford, William
    Beckford, William. 17601844, English author. A wealthy dilettante, Beckfordhad a great desire to ascend to the nobility. Unfortunately  
    http://www.slider.com/enc/6000/Beckford_William.htm
    
    Extractions: Beckford, William 1760-1844, English author. A wealthy dilettante, Beckford had a great desire to ascend to the nobility. Unfortunately his erratic and strange behavior often worked against his ambitions. About 1796 he built in Wiltshire an extravagant Gothic castle, Fonthill Abbey, where he lived in mysterious seclusion and earned himself the reputation of an eccentric. Although not deeply interested in politics, he served in the House of Commons from 1784 to 1794 and from 1806 to 1820. Beckford is chiefly remembered today for the Gothic romance Vathek, a bizarre tale about the adventures of the shockingly cruel Caliph Vathek. The book was written in French but was first published (1786) in English translation. He was also the author of several books of travel and two burlesques on the sentimental novels of his day, The Elegant Enthusiast (1796) and Azemia See biography by P. Summers (1966).

39. Leisure - Entertainment
    6th February 14th April 2002 William Beckford 1760-1844 An Eye for the MagnificentDulwich Picture Gallery Gallery Road, Dulwich Village SE21 7AD Tel (020  
    http://www.dulwichontheweb.com/leente.htm
    
    Extractions: Entertainment For details of lectures, workshops and other events at the Dulwich Picture Gallery or Horniman Museum and Gardens click here to view our diary of events in and around Dulwich. Childrens' activities can be found on our Kids' Activities and What's On For Kids pages. Exhibition details are listed below. Click on the items below to jump to the appropriate listings: Art Galleries

40. Lchatel
    and the Art of Chiaroscuro in William Beckford (1760-1844) Interfaces, ed  
    http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/saes/crau/C/chatel.html

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