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 WORKS BY Thomas Chatterton:

Poems: supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the Fifteenth Century; the greatest part now first published from the most Authentic Copies, with an Engraved Specimen of one of the MSS. To which are added, a Preface, an Introductory Account of the Several Pieces, and a Glossary.

The Works of Thomas Chatterton: containing his Life.