Thomas Chatterton

(1752-1770)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770 NRA: Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) Poet DNB: Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770), poet LBT ID: ThChatt1770 VIAF ID: 32071684 LOC ID: n80039722	B/BAP: 1752-11-20 DIED: 1770-08-24
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The “marvelous boy” of Bristol, whose forgeries of medieval poetry deceived many and whose early death by suicide came to epitomize the fate neglected genius.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Chatterton: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [8 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 5 July 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 36b Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 6 July 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 38b Robert Southey to John May, 11 July 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 30 March 1802 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Neville White, 20 December 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Neville White, 3 February 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Neville White, 7 April 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Neville White, 11 March 1810 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 27 August 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, [5 September 1811] in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [23 September 1816] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE YOUNG SPIRITS. Verse 2: p. 42b p. 42b NOTES. Found 1: ¶ 22 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter VII Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Prospects for Greece; varia Found 1: ¶ 21 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Poetical Efforts,” 29 June 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 207 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 2: ¶ 52 ¶ n2 Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 15 Life of Byron: 1811 Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 39 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 3: ¶ 116 ¶ 126 ¶ 147 “Mr. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron” in The Times (30 January 1830) Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ n2 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 85 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 118 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (8 January 1831) 23-25 Found 1: ¶ 15 [William Maginn?], “Byron's Last Biographer” in New Monthly Magazine 31 (February 1831) 159-64 Found 1: ¶ 16 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 30 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter I 1812-13 Found 1: ¶ 37 Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 55 Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 31 March 1839 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Taste for the Gothic Found 1: ¶ 13 Queen Mab Found 1: ¶ 7 Burial in Rome Found 1: ¶ 14 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. II” in New Monthly Magazine 79 (April 1847) 515-22 Found 1: ¶ 7 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 1: ¶ 38 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XIV Ch. V. 1797 Ch. IX. 1802-03 Found 3: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Ch. XIII. 1807 Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. XVI. 1810-1811 Ch. XXXVIII. 1837-1843 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 13: The Sun Found 1: ¶ 12 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Thomas Campbell IV Found 1: ¶ 7 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 21 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XI. 1812. Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ n1 Letters: 1816 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) I. Byron Characteristics Found 1: ¶ 29