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By Daniel Cook

lengthy sooner than Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton used to be touted because the 'second Shakespeare' via eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked one of the prime British poets by means of widespread literary critics, and likened to the modern glossy prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, specifically, engendered a renewed fascination with historical English literature.

With Chatterton as its case examine, this booklet deals new insights into the formation and improvement of literary scholarship within the interval, from the periodical press to the general public lecture, from the evaluation to the anthology, from textual to biographical feedback. cook dinner demonstrates that, whereas significant students came upon Chatterton to be a pertinent topic for a number of literary debates within the eighteenth century, by means of the top of the Romantic interval he had turn into, and nonetheless is still, an unsettling version of hubristic genius.

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