The poet and forger Thomas Chatterton (1752 70) is known today to have been the author of the Rowley poems, a series of compositions in medieval English. Chatterton claimed to have transcribed them from manuscripts written by a fifteenth-century monk, Thomas Rowley. After Chatterton's tragic early death, however, debate raged about the provenance of the poems. This biography, published in 1789, engages powerfully in that debate. Scholar and cleric George Gregory (1754 1808) makes every effort to defend Chatterton against the accusations of forgery, tackling each objection point by point, not...
The poet and forger Thomas Chatterton (1752 70) is known today to have been the author of the Rowley poems, a series of compositions in medieval Engli...
