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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 ...
Chatterton, for a variety of reasons to a large extent relating to the state of letters in his time, achieved the status of a myth. This is not to discount his formidable influence on English, French, and German literature through his “Rowley” poems, which he attributed to a 15th-century Bristol priest, Thomas Rowley.
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 ...
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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 ...
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.”
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
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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.
