Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830

by Daniel Cook

Book Overview

Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349461768
• ISBN13: 9781349461769
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"