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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
droppe the brynie teare wythe mee, Daunce ne moe atte hallie...
- Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
Died. 24 August 1770 (1770-08-24) (aged 17) Holborn, London, England. Pen name. Thomas Rowley, Decimus. Occupation. 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 ...
The poet and forger Thomas Chatterton (1752–70) is known today to have been the author of the Rowley poems, a series of compositions in medieval English. Chatterton claimed to have transcribed them from manuscripts written by a fifteenth-century monk, Thomas Rowley. After Chatterton's tragic early death, however, debate raged about the ...
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
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
And with some of the disinterest of the true artist, Chatterton sacrificed his own fame and attributed most of the poems he wrote in 1768 and 1769, many of which touch on greatness, to a fictitious Bristolian priest of the 15th century, Sir Thomas Rowley. Unfortunately Chatterton, herald of the new poetic era, clung to some of the habits of the ...
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In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley—which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole.
