For the English politician, see Thomas Chatterton (MP).
For the American cultural critic with a similar name, see Thomas Chatterton Williams.
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Thomas Chatterton
The Death of Chatterton, 1856, by Henry Wallis (Tate Britain, London)
Born
(1752-11-20)20 November 1752[1] Bristol, England
Died
24 August 1770(1770-08-24) (aged 17) Holborn, London, England
Pen name
Thomas Rowley, Decimus
Occupation
Poet, forger
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Although fatherless and raised in poverty, Chatterton was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11. He was able to pass off his work as that of an imaginary 15th-century poet called Thomas Rowley, chiefly because few people at the time were familiar with medieval poetry, though he was denounced by Horace Walpole.
At 17, he sought outlets for his political writings in London, having impressed the Lord Mayor, William Beckford, and the radical leader John Wilkes, but his earnings were not enough to keep him, and he poisoned himself in despair. His unusual life and death attracted much interest among the romantic poets, and Alfred de Vigny wrote a play about him that is still performed today. The oil painting The Death of Chatterton by Pre-Raphaelite artist Henry Wallis has enjoyed lasting fame.
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