1st Edition

Selected Poems of Thomas Chatterton

Edited By Grevel Lindop, Thomas Chatterton Copyright 2003

    This book presents Thomas Chatterton's selected poems. It includes introductions to Chatterton's life, technique, and reputation, and shows the historical significance and unexpected range of his poetry, which spans the genres of satire, elegy, lyric, narrative verse, and poetic drama.

    Introduction I The Poet II The Poetry III The Technicalities of Rowley IV Chatterton*s Reputation V The Text and Editorial Matter Acknowledged Poems Apostate Will, To Horace Walpole, from Journal 6th, from Elegy to the Memory of M r. Thomas Phillips, The Defence, A Bacchanalian, To Miss Hoyland, from February: An Elegy, The Art of Puffing, On the Immortality of the Soul, Rowley Poems, from Ælla, An Excelente Balade of Charitie, from The Parlyamente of Sprytes, Eclogue the Third, The Worlde, c There was a Broder of Orderys Blacke, f There was a Broder of Orderys White, The Gouler*s Requiem, Onn Johne a Dalbenie

    Biography

    Grevel Lindop was born in Liverpool (UK) in 1948 and educated at Oxford.