Thomas Chatterton

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Thomas Chatterton was an 18th-century English poet and literary forger, celebrated as a precocious Romantic precursor whose tragic early death at 17 made him a symbol of the misunderstood genius.

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instanceOf Romantic precursor
human
literary forger
poet
ageAtDeath 17
apprenticedTo John Lambert NERFINISHED
apprenticeshipOccupation attorney's clerk
burialPlace St Andrew's Churchyard, Holborn (unmarked grave) NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath poisoning
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
createdCharacter Thomas Rowley NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1752-11-20
dateOfDeath 1770-08-24
describedAs precocious genius
symbol of the misunderstood genius
educatedAt Colston's Hospital, Bristol NERFINISHED
era 18th century
ethnicGroup English
familyName Chatterton NERFINISHED
father Thomas Chatterton Sr. NERFINISHED
genre literary forgery
poetry
satire
givenName Thomas NERFINISHED
hasInfluenced John Keats NERFINISHED
Percy Bysshe Shelley NERFINISHED
Romantic poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge NERFINISHED
William Wordsworth NERFINISHED
inspiredBy antiquarian interest in medieval England
languageOfWorkOrName English
literaryPeriod pre-Romantic
mannerOfDeath suicide
mother Sarah Chatterton NERFINISHED
movement Gothic revival (literature) NERFINISHED
Romanticism NERFINISHED
name Thomas Chatterton NERFINISHED
notableFor Rowley forgeries NERFINISHED
medieval-style pseudo-chronicles
notableWork African Eclogues NERFINISHED
Kew Gardens (satire) NERFINISHED
Rowley poems NERFINISHED
The Bristowe Tragedie NERFINISHED
The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin NERFINISHED
The Ryse of Peyncteynge in England NERFINISHED
Ælla, a Tragycal Enterlude NERFINISHED
occupation literary forger
poet
writer
placeOfBirth Bristol NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath England
London, England
surface form: London
portrayedIn The Death of Chatterton (painting by Henry Wallis) NERFINISHED
residence Bristol NERFINISHED
London, England
surface form: London
sibling Mary Chatterton NERFINISHED
subjectOf biographical studies in Romantic literature

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