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Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge .
Chatterton is a small village in the southern part of the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England. It is half a mile north of Ramsbottom town centre on the A676 between Bolton and Edenfield. For local government purposes, it receives services from Rossendale Borough Council and Lancashire County Council.
Of all English poets, Thomas Chatterton seemed to his great Romantic successors most to typify a commitment to the life of imagination. His poverty and untimely suicide represented the martyrdom of the poet by the materialistic society of his time.
The Chatterton Massacre took place on the morning of the 26 th of April 1826 outside Aitkens and Lords Mill, in the village of Chatterton, near Ramsbottom, east Lancashire. At least six people were shot dead by British soldiers.
Thomas Chatterton (born November 20, 1752, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died August 24, 1770, London) was the chief poet of the 18th-century “Gothic” literary revival, England’s youngest writer of mature verse, and precursor of the Romantic Movement.
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Thomas Chatterton Manuscript Project. Everything you need to know about Thomas Chatterton: Biographies, Bibliographies, Poetry, Autograph Manuscripts, History of Bristol. William Canynges, William Barrett, Henry Burgum, George Catcott, William Blake, St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol Cathedral.
Biography of Chatterton. Thomas Chatterton was born on 20th November 1752 at Pile Street School, opposite St Mary Redcliffe Church in the city of Bristol, England. Chatterton's father had been employed as the school’s writing master, but died three months before his son’s birth.
