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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 ...
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 ...
- Thomas Chatterton
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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 ...
Chatterton's Authentic & Lost Works. The manuscript receipt, shown above, is an example of the difficulties faced when working on 18th century manuscripts. It was written by Chatterton and given to George Catcott, who passed it on to his nephew, the Bristol surgeon, Richard Smith, before it eventually ended up at Bristol Library. The Ms. is ...
Chatterton was born on November 20, 1752 in Bristol, the posthumous son of a schoolmaster—also named Thomas—of an eccentric disposition but with strong musical and antiquarian interests. The elder Thomas Chatterton’s ancestors had been sextons of the church of Saint Mary in the parish of Redcliff for generations.
Biographies & Works. Published 1770 - todate. 'Portraits of Chatterton' : View. A gathering of the various books containing Chatterton's works and the many biographies produced over the years, stretching from 1770 to the present day. This is the one sure way to trace 'facts' to their source.
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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 ...
