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Thomas Chatterton
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synonyms: Thomas Rowley ???
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Definition:[1752 - 1770]an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He became a heroic tragic figure in Romantic art.Although fatherless and raised in poverty, he was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11. He was able to pass off his work as that of an imaginary 15th-century poet called Thomas Rowley, chiefly because few people at the time were familiar with medieval poetry, though he was denounced by Horace Walpole.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting: by Henry Wallis, (1856) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13463376
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One cannot help warming up to a man who can lie like that. Talk about Chatterton’s Rowley deception, Macpherson’s Ossian fraud, or Locke’s moon hoax! Compared with this tremendous fib they are as but the stilly whisper of a hearth-stone cricket to the shrill trumpeting of a wounded elephant—the piping of a sick cocksparrow to the brazen clang of a donkey in love!
Ambose Bierce. The Fiend's Delight: Current Journalings
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"Well, you know, he may turn out a Byron, a Chatterton, a Churchill—that sort of thing—there's no telling," said Mr. Brooke.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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