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Skeat’s translation of Rowley, whatever it did for the intelligibility of Chatterton’s work, alerted readers to the musicality of his construction. However outlandish some of his coinages might seem, the sheer fluidity and versatility of his poetry induced a fresh awareness of the possibilities open to the poet.
- 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 ...
The historic sense in general is the realization that men of the past differed from those of the present in manners and customs, in dress and in dwellings, in ways of feeling and ways of think- ing. It is not the simple interest in the past that is almost as. old as history itself, but the awareness, sympathetic rather than superior, of the ...
formal life of Chatterton'.2 A ful1·length biography was publiShed, eventually, in 1789, in the fourth volume of Andrew Kippis's Bi(Jgmphiu I1rilarmicu, 20 years after Chatterton's death, but, tellingly, it was printed in the 'Appendix to the letter C.' (where his life was a little more than a footnote to the entry). 151
- Maria Grazia Lolla
- 1999
Thomas Chatterton, obsessed with the creation of antique literature, did not limit his artistic output to the poetry he pretended was written by the fictional fifteenth century cleric Thomas ...
The Rowley productions are here rendered in Walter Skeat’s modernized 1883 version which to the modern reader will be much more accessible than the originals in “Rowleyese.” The selection of Chatterton’s works is divided in two: 1) the works reflecting the magic universe (the Rowley productions); 2) those reflecting the disenchanted universe (the productions he acknowledged as created ...
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Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752– 24 August 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval verse. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, he was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of eleven. He was able to pass-off as an imaginary 15th-century poet called Thomas Rowley, chiefly because few people at the time were familiar with medieval poetry ...
