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• Chatterton, Thomas — (1752 1770)    Born in Bristol to a poor schoolmaster, he was considered a dull boy at school, but by the age of eight he was a pupil at Colston s Hospital, the bluecoat school at Bristol. He left the school at fifteen and was apprenticed to a… …   British and Irish poets

• Chatterton,Thomas — Chat·ter·ton (chătʹər tən), Thomas. 1752 1770. British poet who fooled scholars by ascribing his poetry to a 15th century monk, Thomas Rowley. Unable to support himself by writing, Chatterton became dejected and took his own life at age 18. His… …   Universalium

• Chatterton, Thomas — 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… …   Universalium

• Chatterton (opera) — Ruggero Leoncavallo …   Wikipedia

• Chatterton, Thomas — (1752 1770)    Poet, b. at Bristol, posthumous s. of a schoolmaster, who had been a man of some reading and antiquarian tastes, after whose death his mother maintained herself and her boy and girl by teaching and needlework. A black letter Bible… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

• Augustan poetry — is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and it was… …   Wikipedia