Chatterton - An Essay: With a Biography by Augustus Jessopp

by Samuel Roffey Maitland

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446067149
• ISBN13: 9781446067147
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Marton Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"