Selected Poems - Chatterton Thomas
Selected Poems - Chatterton Thomas Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. He read and then wrote medieval…
Specifikacia Selected Poems - Chatterton Thomas
Selected Poems - Chatterton Thomas
Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. He read and then wrote medieval poetry which he passed off as genuine. 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.
After six months' struggle, too proud to admit defeat, starving and alone, he killed himself in his attic room. He was When the poems he wrote in his own name brought him some success, he went to London to seek his fortune as a writer.