Selected Poems

Thomas Chatterton was an English Poet whose distinguishingly precoicious career ended with his suicide, aged 17. From the age of 11, he was producing mature work - by nature he was a thoughtful child, tending to sit deep in though for protracted periods. In 1770, in London, after a dissapointing search for a patron, he poisoned himself with arsenic. Grevel Lindop was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford. One of Carcanet’s first authors, he has published six previous collections of poems with Carcanet, and has been a winner of the Poetry Life, Poetry London, Stafford, and Kent and Sussex Poetry Prizes. His prose books include biographies of De Quincey and Charles Williams, and Travels on the Dance Floor, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and shortlisted as Authors’ Club Best Travel Book of its year. He was Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies at Manchester University, and has held visiting appointments at St John’s College, Oxford, and Girton College, Cambridge. He lives in Manchester and is married, with three children and seven grandchildren.

• Table of ContentsPREFACE -Grevel LindopINTRODUCTION -Grevel LindopI The PoetIIThe PoetryIII The Technicalities of RowleyIVChatterton's ReputationV The Text and Editorial MatterACKNOWLEDGED POEMSApostate WillTo Horace Walpolefrom Journal 6thfrom Elegy to the Memory of Mr.Thomas PhillipsThe DefenceA BacchanalianTo Miss Hoylandfrom February: An ElegyThe Art of PuffingOn the Immortality of the SoulROWLEY POEMSfrom AEllaAn Excelente Balade of Charitiefrom The Parlyamente of SprytesEclogue the ThirdThe World'There was a Broder of Orderys Blacke'There was a Broder of Orderys WhiteThe Gouler's RequiemOnn Johne a DalbenieNOTESAPPENDIX A: Chatterton's Last Verses'APPENDIX B: Chatterton's Will

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