Chatterton : Thomas (1752-70), English poet of Gothic literary revival; precursor of the Romantic Movement.
... &Gifford are the only notable ones. (4) The school of country life and the simpler feelings, consisting of Cowper and Crabbe.(5) The school of romantic poets & restorers of mediaevalism, consisting of Chatterton, Macpherson and Percy. (6) The Scotch lyric poets of whom Ferguson and Burns are the head. (7) William Blake standing by himself as a romantic, mystical& lyric poet. Besides these there are two writers ...
... Appendix: Test Questions The Mediaevalists 1) Describe the nature & influence on English poetry of Percy's Reliques. 2) Sketch the career of Chatterton. 3) Describe the character of Chatterton's forgeries and estimate their effects on the value of his poetry. 4) Discuss the conflicting estimates of Chatterton's poetry. 5) What is the Ossian... the distinctly mediaevalist writers of the period? What was their importance in the history of the period? [ Draft-answers to the first three questions ] 1) 1765 Percy's Reliques 2) Chatterton born 1752. Colston's Hospital. 1764 first Rowley forgery Elinoure & Juga. 1767 apprenticed to Lambert. 1768-9 contributions to London magazines. 1768 attempt to get Dodsley to publish especially ...
... Lyrical Ballads in 1798 are to be found in Gray's writings. Of the other poets of the time, Johnson & Goldsmith mark the last development of the Augustan style, while Collins, Blake, Cowper, Burns, Chatterton each embody in their poetry the beginnings of one or more tendencies which afterwards found their full expression in the nineteenth century. Gray alone seems to include in himself along with many ...
... the formal metrical mould, rhetorical style, limited subject-matter, absence of imagination and vision imposed by the high pontiffs of the pseudo-classical cult. Poets like Gray, Collins, Thomson, Chatterton, Cowper seek liberation by a return to Miltonic blank verse and manner, to the Spenserian form,—an influence which prolonged itself in Byron, Keats and Shelley,—to lyrical movements, but more prominently ...
... than Keats, there was the English poet on whom Wordsworth himself has two touching lines, the youth who lived so poor and yet so disdainful of begging that he had to commit suicide: I thought of Chatterton, that marvellous boy, The sleepless soul which perished in its pride... Even Shelley, though he did not die of physical misery or poverty, lived scorned by his fellows to whom he sang of ...
... glimmers out a presage of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats. A forerunner more immediate in time as well as in several moods is the effort made by poets like Gray, Collins, Thomson, Chatterton and Cowper in the third quarter of the eighteenth century to break away, in Sri Aurobindo's words, 5 "from the prison of the formal metrical mould, rhetorical style, limited subject-matter, absence ...
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