Chatterton - A Biography
With a Biography by George Gregory Smith
In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley-which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole. Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and earn a living from his writing. After impressing the likes of the Lord Mayor, William Beckford and the radical leader John Wilkes, he eagerly looked for an outlet in London for his political works, but was unable to make a decent living and, despairing, poisoned himself at the age of se…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4097-9479-0
- EAN: 9781409794790
- Produktnummer: 3953944
- Verlag: Read & Co. Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 332 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.9 cm 444 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 444
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