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Stories of Chatterton’s apparent early inability to learn to read and being in consequence judged stupid; his falling in love with an illuminated manuscript at the age of six, after which he did little but read and demonstrate his precocity; his haunting of bookshops; his passion for fame; and his sense that the loss of his father deprived both himself and his family of the standing they ...
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- Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
Aug 20, 2024 · Thomas Chatterton (born November 20, 1752, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died August 24, 1770, London) was the chief poet of the 18th-century “Gothic” literary revival, England’s youngest writer of mature verse, and precursor of the Romantic Movement. At first considered slow in learning, Chatterton had a tearful childhood, choosing ...
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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 ...
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 ...
"When I was a young man I read 'Roughing It' and loved it. When I be-gan to court the girl who became my wife I read it to her. When we were married we took the book with us on our honey-moon. I then vowed that if ever I could do anything for the man who wrote that book I would do it. "Shortly after the failure of Mark Twain's publishing firm ...
5 days ago · He began reading sooner than many children his age after he learned to read from an old musical folio. However, his capricious behavior caused him to be labeled as a poor student. Despite being considered a slow learner in his early childhood, Chatterton showed promise as a strong reader and poet early on. He wrote his first poem at just 10 ...
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Dec 9, 2012 · Chatterton the Teenage Romantic. In a previous post, we spoke of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto as, effectively, ‘the forgery that began Gothic literature’. Another important forgery from the 1760s was the work of an adolescent, Thomas Chatterton. Born in Bristol in 1752, Chatterton started writing poetry at an early ...
