Thomas Chatterton – Doomed Poet, Gothic Hero or Cynical Forger? - David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen

The poet Thomas Chatterton – who died in August 1770 in a London garret aged just 17 – would for decades afterwards be an icon for struggling artists and misunderstood wordsmiths. He'd be an archetype for all those with leanings towards the Romantic and gothic – Blake, Byron, Keats and Shelley praised him

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