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The Rowley Poems Kindle Edition

by Thomas Chatterton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 out of 5 stars 6
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'The Rowley Poems' is a collection of poems that the author, Thomas Chatterton, penned as Thomas Rowley, which was a pseudonym that he adopted by pretending to be a monk of the 15th century. As Rowley, Chatterton's poems were celebrated, with some of his best-known works featured in this current volume of work.
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    English
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  4. Publisher
    Good Press
  5. Publication date
    November 29, 2019
  6. File size
    1696 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B082581MFZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Good Press (November 29, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 29, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1696 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 286 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars 6

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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BikerBabe59
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2017
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a brilliant, talented poet, and a tragic life. love it, cried. how sad that his life ended so young.
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Robert Guttman
3.0 out of 5 stars The Tragedy of a Great Talent Wasted
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2013
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In Britain they have a television program called "Britain's Got Talent". Most of it is rubbish. However, there were Britons with genuine talent who never got their chance. The 18th Century poet Thomas Chatterton was prime example.

Chatterton might have been numbered among the leaders of the Romantic Movement; a poet remembered alongside the likes of Byron, Shelly, Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth. There is no question that those poets all knew about Chatterton. In fact, most of them wrote poems about Chatterton, at one time or another. Chatterton might also have been recognized as an early precursor to Tolkien. Instead, he remains little more than a footnote in British literary history. That was because Thomas Chatterton committed suicide, destitute and alone, at the age of only 17!

Chatterton lived over two hundred years ago, when the world was a tougher place in which to get along than it is today. We tend to think of the 18th Century as a romantic period. However, to Chatterton, it was simply the hard, grubby present. His imagination was fixed on an earlier period, the proverbial "Days Of Old, When Knights Were Bold". Like Miniver Cheevy, he seems to have perceived himself as having been "born too late". He wrote romantic, pseudo-Medieval poetry, which he passed off as the work of a 15th Century monk named Rowley. Chatterton wasn't the first to attempt that sort of thing. James Macpherson did the same thing a few years earlier when he wrote a series of poems that he claimed he had discovered, and which supposedly were the work of a Medieval Scottish poet called Ossian. However, while Macpherson's hoax was widely accepted by the reading public (Napoleon is said to have carried a copy with him during all his campaigns), Chatterton was not so fortunate. Rejected, impoverished and alone in a strange city, Chatterton chose to end his young life.

When you read these poems you have to keep reminding yourself that they were written by a mere kid. You can't help but wonder what the author might have achieved if only he had lived.

This Kindle edition includes, in addition to the poems themselves, a great deal of incidental material on the author and his work. In fact, the actual poems themselves don't even appear until the middle of the book. Unfortunately, like many free Kindle editions, this volume lacks an active table of contents, so getting around is a bit of a chore.
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Thomas Hawking
3.0 out of 5 stars The key document of Chatterton
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2012
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You have to be an enthusiast of the short lived Thomas Chatterton to appreciate this book. I was hoping to find some kind of evidence to support the assertion that Chatterton did not commit suicide but died from over medicating himself with arsenic. I still suspect it was suicide. Age 17 is quite young to call it quits and it's sad really. One cannot help but wonder what was going through his mind at the time, and his poems are his legacy. Such is life.
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L L
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2016
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Not really what I was expecting. Gave to a friend.
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