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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 provenance of the poems. This biography, published
in 1789, engages powerfully in that debate. Scholar and cleric
George Gregory (1754 1808) makes every effort to defend Chatterton
against the accusations of forgery, tackling each objection point
by point, not least the question of why eighteenth-century syntax
appears in the Rowley poems. Paired with Cottle and Southey's
three-volume collection of Chatterton's work (also reissued in this
series), this book attests to the growth of his influence and
remains relevant to students and scholars of English literature.
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
1 includes his earliest poetry, and a biography by George Gregory
(also reissued separately in this series).
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