About Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was an English poet and writer. He is better known for his suicide at the age of eighteen, and for his image portrayed by the french poet Alfred de Vigny and the English Romantics, than for his work. A work that, however, is not insignificant: Chatterton is situated at the origins of the Gothic Revival, thanks to his literary double, the monk Kowley, whom he uses to create his poetic work (The Battle of Hastings, 1968), just as Macpherson created Ossian.Browse all poems and texts published on Thomas Chatterton
