| Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton Contributor(s): Chatterton, Thomas (Author), Lindop, Grevel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 185754692X ISBN-13: 9781857546927 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: Including introductions to Chatterton's life, technique, and reputation, this selection shows the historical significance and unexpected range of his poetry, which spans the genres of satire, elegy, lyric, narrative verse, and poetic drama. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.22" W x 8.62" (0.33 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable schooling and the drudgery of apprenticeship. He read and then wrote medieval poetry which he passed off as genuine. When the poems he wrote in his own name brought him some success, he went to London to seek his fortune as a writer. After six months' struggle, too proud to admit defeat, starving and alone, he killed himself in his attic room. He was seventeen. |