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| Name: |
Thomas Chatterton | | Birth Date: |
November 20, 1752 | | Death Date: |
August 24, 1770 | | Place of Birth: |
Bristol, England | | Place of Death: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Thomas Chatterton
408 words, approx. 1 pages
 The major works of the English poet Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) are a group of poems that he claimed had been written by Thomas Rowley, a 15th-century priest. Thomas Chatterton, born in Bristol on Nov. 20, 1752, was the posthumous son of a... summary from source:
 Biography of Thomas Chatterton
7,041 words, approx. 24 pages
 Of all English poets, Thomas Chatterton seemed to his great Romantic successors most to typify a commitment to the life of imagination. His poverty and untimely suicide represented the martyrdom of the poet by the materialistic society of his time.... 
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 Thomas Chatterton Quotes
28 words, approx. 1 pages
There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear. The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe. Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne...
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 Thomas Chatterton Information
2,649 words, approx. 9 pages
Thomas Chatterton (November 20, 1752 – August 24, 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide by arsenic rather than die of starvation at the young age of 17, he served as an icon of unacknowledged genius for the...
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 The Washington Post The Life and Death of Thomas Chatterton, Poet and Forger
01/24/1988: 925 words, approx. 3 pages CHATTERTON By Peter Ackroyd Grove. 234 pp. $17.95 THE FAMILY ROMANCE OF THE IMPOSTOR-POET THOMAS CHATTERTON By Louise J. Kaplan Atheneum. 301 pp. $24.95 THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770) was not just a teen-age suicide before the phenomenon. He had a kind of... summary from source:
Wordsworth Circle
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Nick Groom
7,370 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt, Groom tries to define forgery in light of the Rowley manuscript controversy that occurred after Chatterton's death; in his discussion, Groom focuses on the complex debate concerning the difference between history and fiction and the importance of authorial intention in deciding whether a document is indeed a forgery.
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Critical Essay by Maryhelen C. Harmon
5,961 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Harmon argues that Chatterton's life served as the inspiration for Herman Melville's story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” which chronicles the short, dreary life of a solitary copyist—a job that Chatterton held before leaving Bristol.
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Critical Essay by Lucy Morrison
5,351 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Morrison argues that John Keats's poem “To Autumn” was strongly influenced by several poetic works produced by Chatterton. The critic observes that Keats preserves but softens the death imagery present in Chatterton's evocations of autumn, and remarks that Keats tried hard to overcome Chatterton's influence in order to present his own original voice.
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