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The first history of English poetry (1774–1781), by Thomas Warton, was to chart the same awareness of an older tradition. Warton’s understanding of this tradition, however, was an academic one in comparison with that of Chatterton, whose Rowley poems he learned of too late.
- 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 ...
May 13, 2019 · Many of these forgeries were said (by Chatterton) to be written by a fifteenth-century monk named Thomas Rowley, so they’ve been called the “Rowley poems” ever since. Phillips notes this divide in Chatterton’s work: “authentic but dull on one side, forged and fascinating on the other.”
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 ...
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
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 ...
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Chatterton was enamored of the local Gothic church of St Mary Redcliff and particularly the story of Thomas Rowley which would later figure highly in the myth that would surround him. He was a sensitive child, given to sitting alone and in long contemplations and he wrote from the age of 11, publishing some works in a local journal.
