Thomas Chatterton
Also known as Thomas Rowley, Decimus
English poet and forger (1752-1770)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1752
- Died
- 1770
- Works
- 78
Top works
- Poetical works
- The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton
- Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton; Volume 1
- The letter paraphras'd
- The execution of Sir Charles Bawdin
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Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease. Thomas Chatterton was born at Bristol where the office of sexton of St. Mary Redcliffe had long been held the Chatterton family. The poet's father, also named Thomas Chatterton, was a musician, a poet, a numismatist, and a dabbler in the occult. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tho
Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to Thomas Chatterton, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet who committed 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 a studious child, publishing work by the age of 11. He was able to pass off his work as that of a fictional 15th-century poet called Thomas Rowley, though he was denounced by Horace Walpole.