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."
Associated Publications & Suggested Reading
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Associated Publications
Some of these works are only available by purchase or subscription -
Thomas Chatterton - Oxford Bibliographies - Dr Daniel Cook:
Thomas Chatterton - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Prof. Nick Groom:
Biography
'The Marvellous Boy: The Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton' - Linda Kelly
'A Life of Thomas Chatterton' - E H W Meyerstein
'Chatterton: A Biographical Study' - Sir Daniel Wilson
'Chatterton: A Biography' - David Masson
Works
'Selected Poems Thomas Chatterton' - N Groom
'Thomas Chatterton Selected Poems' - Grevel Lindop
'The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton A Bicentenary Edition' - Donald S Taylor and Benjamin B Hoover
'Poems Supposed to have been Written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and Others in the Fifteenth Century...' - T Tyrwhitt 1777
'Chatterton's Poetical Works' - W W Skeat (Contains Chatterton's Rowley works in a 'modernised' form)
Miscellaneous
Note: Copies of All Texts below by Michael Doble available through this website.
'The Case for Thomas Chatterton – Poet & Writer or Forger? A New Enquiry into the Work & Legacy of Thomas Chatterton' 2014 - Michael Doble
'Thomas Chatterton and The Myth of The Romanticist Suicide – A New Enquiry into The Death of Chatterton' 2013- Michael Doble
' “Bristol’s Shakespeare” The Creative Influence of Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770 Upon Subsequent Generations ~ An Illustrated Booklet'~ 2016 - Michael Doble
'Two Outsiders Thomas Chatterton & Oscar Wilde - Is there a Poetic-Spiritual Connection between Wilde & Chatterton?' 2009 - Michael Doble
'Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture' - ed N Groom
'Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius 1760 - 1830' - Daniel Cook
'From Gothic to Romantic: Thomas Chatterton's Bristol' - ed Alistair Heys
'William Seward's Annotations to George Gregory's Life of Chatterton (1789)',
John Clare Society Journal 34 (July 2015), pp 7 - 15 - N Groom
On-Line Reading compiled: Richard Fenlon
'Poems, Supposed to Have Been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and Others in the Fifteenth Century...' 1st edition - Thomas Tyrwhitt 1777
'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Thomas Chatterton' - John Broughton 1778
'Love and Madness; A Story Too True' - Herbert Croft 1780
'Observations upon the Poems of Thomas Rowley in which the Authenticity of these Poems is Ascertained' - Jacob Bryant 1781
'Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol in the Fifteenth Century by Thomas Rowley Priest & ..the Antiquity of them is Considered and Defended' -
Jeremiah Milles 1781
'The Life of Thomas Chatterton with Criticisms of his Genius and Writings...' - G Gregory 1789
'The Works Of Thomas Chatterton. Volume I' - Southey & Cottle 1803
'The Works Of Thomas Chatterton. Volume II' - Southey & Cottle 1803
'The Works Of Thomas Chatterton. Volume III' - Southey & Cottle 1803
'Chatterton, A Biographical Study' - Daniel Wilson - 1869
'Thomas Chatterton the Marvellous Boy the Story of a Strange Life 1752-1770' - Charles Edward Russell 1908
'The True Chatterton - A New Study from Original Documents' - John H Ingram 1910
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Vol I
Vol II
Vol III
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