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- These poems were supposedly written by a 15th-century monk of Bristol, Thomas Rowley, a fictitious character created by Chatterton. The name was taken from a civilian’s monument brass at St. John’s Church in Bristol. The poems had many shortcomings both as medieval writings and as poetry.
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Chatterton soon conceived the romance of Thomas Rowley, an imaginary monk of the 15th century, [3] and adopted for himself the pseudonym Thomas Rowley for poetry and history. According to psychoanalyst Louise J. Kaplan, his being fatherless played a great role in his imposturous creation of Rowley. [ 7 ]
Consequently, not only was none of the Rowley poetry published during Chatterton’s lifetime but his “friends” were among the most adamant after his death in asserting that the boy they had known could not possibly have written the Rowley poems.
5 days ago · The potential patron pieced together those shreds to find a modified ending to Aella, a tragic poem previously published under the name Rowley. This sparked great controversy, as the poems of Thomas Rowley were still widely considered to be genuine medieval works.
Volume 2 contains the Rowley poems, for which Chatterton is best known. Ironically, they were never published under his own name in his lifetime: he claimed that the poems were transcripts he had taken from the work of Thomas Rowley, a fifteenth-century monk.
- Thomas Chatterton
- 1803
To begin with, there are all the volumes and pamphlets concerning themselves with the question whether the Rowley poems were written by Chatterton or by Rowley, or by both (Chatterton adding matter of his own to existing poems written in the fifteenth century), or by neither.
To begin with, there are all the volumes and pamphlets concerning themselves with the question whether the Rowley poems were written by Chatterton or by Rowley, or by both (Chatterton adding matter of his own to existing poems written in the fifteenth century), or by neither.
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 ...
