The Life of Thomas Chatterton : With Criticisms on his Genius and Writings, and a Concise View of the Controversy Concerning Rowley's Poems

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Thomas Chatterton (1752–70) was the author of the forged Rowley poems, which he claimed were transcribed from the work of a fifteenth-century monk. When this biography first appeared in 1789, the provenance of the poems was still disputed, and George Gregory (1754–1808) seeks here to clear Chatterton's name.