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Thomas Chatterton (Bristol, 20 de novembro de 1752 — Londres, 24 de agosto de 1770) foi um poeta britânico. Ficou conhecido pelas suas poesias escritas no estilo medieval e pelo fato de ter cometido suicídio com apenas 17 anos.
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- 20 de novembro de 1752, Chatterton's House
Holborn, London, England. Pen name. Thomas Rowley, Decimus. Occupation. Poet, forger. 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 .
Learn about the life and works of Thomas Chatterton, a 17th-century poet who invented the fictional Thomas Rowley and inspired the Romantics with his imagination and suicide. Explore his poems, essays, and influence on English, French, and German literature.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
BBC documentary. Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mythic afterlife of the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton. With access to rare documents and art...
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- Culture Vulture Rises
Introduction. 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.
Learn about the life and works of Thomas Chatterton, a Bristol-born poet who died at 17 and became a pioneer of the English Romantic movement. Discover how he wrote under different names and pseudonyms, and how his legacy was disputed and celebrated.
