Can I read The Works of Thomas Chatterton on EtoBox?

The Works of Thomas Chatterton by Chatterton, Thomas; Cottle, Joseph; Southey, Robert is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Works of Thomas Chatterton about?

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 medieval pieces numbered in the hundreds. Chatterton is best known for the Rowley poems, which he claimed were transcribed from the work of a fifteenth-century monk. Although the precocious skill of his forgeries, once exposed, often went unrecognised by critics, Chatterton's legacy influenced the Romantics for decades after his death. This three-volume collection of his work, edited by Joseph Cottle and Robert Southey, first appeared in 1803. Volume 3 includes Chatterton's prose works, selected letters, some contemporary discussion of his work, and Cottle's account of the Rowley manuscripts

Author

Chatterton, Thomas; Cottle, Joseph; Southey, Robert

Publisher

publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139626422