The Thomas Chatterton Society
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Thomas Chatterton 1752 - 1770 Poet and Writer born in Bristol England who found international fame after his early and untimely death at 17 years 277 days.
Quote from Thomas Chatterton:
"God has sent his creatures into the world with arms long enough to reach anywhere if they could be put to the trouble of extending them."
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The Thomas Chatterton Society
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2020 "BRISTOL'S SHAKESPEARE"
THOMAS CHATTERTON 1752 - 1770
250th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS
2020 is ‘Chatterton Year’
“the marvellous Boy” – William Wordsworth
“I weep, the heaven-born Genius so should fall,” – S T Coleridge
In ‘Adonias’ his elegy to the death of Keats, he dedicated a verse to Chatterton – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The purest writer in the English language” – John Keats
“One of England’s greatest poets” – Oscar Wilde
The Thomas Chatterton Society will be celebrating the Life & Works Chatterton with the following:
COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS
The British Library (London) Exhibition and Talk/Recitations/Music (July 2020)
The British Academy (London) ‘Meyerstein Chatterton Lecture’ on the subject of ‘Thomas Chatterton‘ (Date TBD)
UWE Bristol Faculty of Art/TCS Expressive Art Competition & Permanent Exhibit & Award Ceremony (January to July 2020)
Chatterton Pocket Handkerchiefs Limited Edition
Chairman’s Book on Chatterton
Bristol Festival of Ideas/St Mary Redcliffe Church 'Chatterton Room' Chatterton Society Exhibition of 'Chattertonia'
A Short Film (TBD)
Keats-Shelley Association of America Joint Event - Chatterton250: A Call for Odes and Elegies - Poetry Competion
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Open Mic Poetry Reading Chatterton’s Café (TBD)
Please also refer to Bristol Festival of Ideas 'A Poetic City'- Celebration of Bristol City's Poets and Poetry inspired by Thomas Chatterton 1752- 1770: Click on Link: https://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/themes/a-poetic-city/
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Note: "Bristol's Shakespeare" - is quoted from: ‘The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare’s Fine Frenzy in Late 18th Century British Art’ by William L Pressly Professor Emeritus Institute of Fine Arts of New York University USA 2007.
9th February 2020 with later additions
SOME EVENTS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
DUE TO NHS UK
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Thomas Chatterton
1752 - 1770
Chatterton's House
built 1749
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17th October 2014
© Bristol's Museums, Galleries and Archives
© Bristol City Council
Bristol City Council places Chatterton’s House, built in 1749, to Leasehold Tender
as Cafe / Restaurant:
“Bristol has an extraordinarily rich literary history, and Thomas Chatterton is at its centre. He was locally celebrated in his day, and after his death inspired one of the major literary debates of the eighteenth century. He was a significant influence on later writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from Oscar Wilde to contemporary novelists such as Peter Ackroyd. There is no grave to commemorate Thomas Chatterton, but we do have the house in which he was born. It should be a fitting memorial to a celebrated poet.”
Prof. Nick Groom, Co-Founder in 2002 ‘The Thomas Chatterton Society’
“Bristol City Council has done an excellent job in the preservation and renovation of Chatterton’s House and we look forward with excitement to the successful long-term use of the birthplace of “Bristol’s Shakespeare”.”
Michael Doble, BSc (Hons) AMInstLM Chairman ‘The Thomas Chatterton Society’
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17th October 2014
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