Tom O' Bedlam

Poem

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Date written	1600
Date of Reg.	2019-09-19 18:07:39
Date of Upd.	2023-01-05 16:00:21
ID	1253042

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About Tom O' Bedlam

"Tom o' Bedlam" is the name of an anonymous poem in the "mad song" genre, written in the voice of a homeless "Bedlamite. " The poem was probably composed at the beginning of the 17th century; in How to Read and Why, Harold Bloom calls it "the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language. "