The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton, Volumes...
Chatterton, Thomas![The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton, Volumes I & II](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/342/34221281/CHSBZCOP0334221281.jpg)
In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley-which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole. Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and earn a living from his writing. After impressing the likes of the Lord Mayor, Willia...