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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 .
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.
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.
Jun 22, 2024 · Discover Thomas Chatterton, a young and mischevious poet who's brief yet bright career inspired the work of the biggest names in the Romantic Era.
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mythic afterlife of the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton. With access to rare documents and art... BBC documentary.
Biography of Chatterton. Thomas Chatterton was born on 20th November 1752 at Pile Street School, opposite St Mary Redcliffe Church in the city of Bristol, England. Chatterton's father had been employed as the school’s writing master, but died three months before his son’s birth.
Thomas Chatterton, (born Nov. 20, 1752, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Aug. 24, 1770, London), English poet. At age 11 Chatterton wrote a pastoral eclogue on an old parchment and passed it off successfully as a 15th-century work.
Dead at the age of seventeen, the poet and artist Thomas Chatterton (b. 1752–d. 1770) found plenty of admirers within barely a decade of his demise. In the periodical press the leading scholars of the age eagerly debated the merits of his works, principally his audacious body of pseudo-medieval papers: the so-called Rowley poems.
May 13, 2019 · The Posthumous Mystique of Thomas Chatterton. He died young of suicide and became the quintessence of the tormented poet. But his death may have been an accident, and his greatest work, forgeries. Chatterton by Henry Wallis, 1856.
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...
