thomas chatterton

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born Nov. 20, 1752, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng. died Aug. 24, 1770, London English poet. At age 11 Chatterton wrote a pastoral eclogue on an old parchment and passed it off successfully as a 15th-century work. Thereafter he created more poems in a similar vein, attributing them to a fictitious monk he called Thomas Rowley. After a mock suicide threat freed him from an apprenticeship to an attorney, he set out for London. There he had some success with a comic opera, The Revenge, but when a prospective patron died, he found himself penniless and without prospects and committed suicide at

Considered a precursor of Romanticism, he was praised by such poets as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth

Hyphenation

Thom·as Chat·ter·ton

Turkish pronunciation

tämıs çätırtın

Pronunciation

/ˈtäməs ˈʧatərtən/ /ˈtɑːməs ˈʧætɜrtən/