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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 ...
Kelly seeks to show that Chatterton was more than a literary oddity and to examine his place in the development of English Romantic poetry. Meyerstein, E. H. W. A Life of Thomas Chatterton. London ...
5 days ago · Shortly after Walpole’s snub, Chatterton wrote “The Last Will and Testament of me, Thomas Chatterton of Bristol.” The work, at once earnest and satirical, portrayed a false intention to end his life the following evening. The piece frightened John Lambert, an attorney to whom Chatterton was apprenticed, into canceling his indentures.
Thomas Chatterton is best known today for the controversy surrounding his fabrication or “forgery” of both the life and poetry of a medieval priest called Thomas Rowley, and for his short ...
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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 ...
