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At the time he died, an Oxford scholar, Dr. Thomas Fry, had started to inquire about the Rowley poems. In terms of Chatterton’s literary achievement there seemed to be a total opposition between the political and often scabrous satires comprising the bulk of his acknowledged work and the Rowley productions that had been left in Bristol.
- Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
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- Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
Poet, forger. Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, Chatterton was an exceptionally studious child ...
Before becoming the archetypal Romantic poet, the ‘marvellous Boy’, and the inspiration for innumerable poems, plays, operas, novels, paintings, and lengthy, uninformative biographies, Thomas Chatterton had been a footnote to Rowley and Canynge, a local attraction in Bristol, and, above all, a function of what became known as the Rowley Controversy. 1
- Maria Grazia Lolla
- 1999
Metrics. Thomas Chatterton (1752–70) was only seventeen when he died of arsenic poisoning. Among his family and friends he was known as a versifier with a fascination for medieval manuscripts, but none suspected the true scope of his work. At eleven, he was already writing poetry, and by the end of his life his love poems, eclogues and forged ...
- Thomas Chatterton
- 1803
Aug 20, 2024 · Thomas Chatterton (born November 20, 1752, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died August 24, 1770, London) was the chief poet of the 18th-century “Gothic” literary revival, England’s youngest writer of mature verse, and precursor of the Romantic Movement. At first considered slow in learning, Chatterton had a tearful childhood, choosing ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thomas Chatterton’s forged Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century (London, 1777) has dazzled critics and poets since it appeared as a ‘most singular literary curiosity’ seven years after his premature death. 1 In many of the periodicals, reviews, newspapers and literary clubs the ‘Rowley debate’ immediately ensued. 2 ...
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This was the beginning of the Rowley fiction--which might be metaphorically described as a motley edifice, half castle and half cathedral, to which Chatterton all his life was continually adding columns and buttresses, domes and spires, pediments and minarets, in the shape of more poems by Thomas Rowley (a secular priest of St. John's, Bristol); or by his patron the munificent William Canynge ...
