Thomas Chatterton

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Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ACROSTIC ON MISS [ELEANOR HOYLAND]. 1768. ()
• ACROSTIC ON MISS [SALLY CLARKE]. 1768. ()
• THE ADVICE. ADDRESSED TO MISS M—— R——, OF BRISTOL. ()
• A BURLESQUE CANTATA. 1770. ()
• BURLETTA. THE WOMAN OF SPIRIT. 1770. ()
• CERDICK, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
• CHATTERTON'S WILL. 1770. ()
• COLIN INSTRUCTED. 1770. ()
• THE CONSULIAD, AN HEROIC POEM. ()
• THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM. ()
• THE DEATH OF NICOU, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
• THE DEFENCE, ()
• ELEGY, ON W. BECKFORD ESQ. ()
• ELEGY, To the Memory of Mr. THOMAS PHILLIPS of Fairford. ()
• ELEGY. ()
• ELEGY. ()
• EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. CATCOTT. ()
• ETHELGAR, A SAXON POEM. ()
• FEBRUARY, AN ELEGY. ()
• GODRED CROVAN, A POEM. ()
• GORTHMUND, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
• HECCAR AND GAIRA AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
• THE HIRLAS, Translated from the ancient British of OWEN CYFELIOG, Prince of Powys. ()
• IN IMITATION OF OUR OLD POETS. ON OURE LADYES CHIRCH. 1769. ()
• KENRICK. TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
• THE METHODIST. MAY 1770. ()
• NARVA AND MORED, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
• ODE TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
• ON MR. ALCOCK, OF BRISTOL, AN EXCELLENT MINIATURE PAINTER. ()
• One CANTO of an ANCIENT POEM, CALLED The UNKNOWN KNIGHT or the TOURNAMENT. ()
• THE PROPHECY. ()
• SENTIMENT. 1769. ()
• SONG TO MR. G. CATCOTT. 1769. ()
• A SONG. ADDRESSED TO MISS C—AM OF BRISTOL. ()
• SONG. FANNY[|BETSY] OF THE HILL. 1770. ()
• TO A FRIEND. ()
• TO MISS B—SH, OF BRISTOL. ()
• TO MISS C—KE. 1768. ()
• TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
• TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
• TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
• TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
• TO MISS H—L—D. WITH A PRESENT. 1768. ()
• TO MR. HOLLAND. ()
• TO THE BEAUTEOUS MISS H—L—D. ()

• Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; by Thomas Chatterton, the supposed author of the poems published under the names of Rowley, Canning, &c. London: printed for Fielding and Walker, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXVIII., 1778. xxxii,245,[3]p.,plates; 8⁰. (ESTC T39457; OTA K039720.000)
  • ETHELGAR, A SAXON POEM.
  • KENRICK. TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON.
  • CERDICK, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON.
  • GODRED CROVAN, A POEM.
  • THE HIRLAS, Translated from the ancient British of OWEN CYFELIOG, Prince of Powys.
  • GORTHMUND, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON.
  • NARVA AND MORED, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE.
  • THE DEATH OF NICOU, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE.
  • ELEGY, To the Memory of Mr. THOMAS PHILLIPS of Fairford.
  • FEBRUARY, AN ELEGY.
  • ELEGY, ON W. BECKFORD ESQ.
  • ELEGY.
  • TO MR. HOLLAND.
  • ON MR. ALCOCK, OF BRISTOL, AN EXCELLENT MINIATURE PAINTER.
  • TO MISS B—SH, OF BRISTOL.
  • THE ADVICE. ADDRESSED TO MISS M—— R——, OF BRISTOL.
  • THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM.
  • THE CONSULIAD, AN HEROIC POEM.
  • ELEGY.
  • THE PROPHECY.
  • A SONG. ADDRESSED TO MISS C—AM OF BRISTOL.
• Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770. A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton London: printed for T. Becket, in Pall-Mall; Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princes. MDCCLXXXIV., 1784. [6],ii,88p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T48948; OTA K045459.000)
  • TO A FRIEND.
  • TO THE BEAUTEOUS MISS H—L—D.
  • ODE TO MISS H—L—D. 1768.
  • ACROSTIC ON MISS [ELEANOR HOYLAND]. 1768.
  • ACROSTIC ON MISS [SALLY CLARKE]. 1768.
  • TO MISS H—L—D. 1768.
  • TO MISS H—L—D. 1768.
  • TO MISS H—L—D. 1768.
  • TO MISS H—L—D. WITH A PRESENT. 1768.
  • TO MISS H—L—D. 1768.
  • TO MISS C—KE. 1768.
  • EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. CATCOTT.
  • SENTIMENT. 1769.
  • THE DEFENCE,
  • SONG TO MR. G. CATCOTT. 1769.
  • One CANTO of an ANCIENT POEM, CALLED The UNKNOWN KNIGHT or the TOURNAMENT.
  • IN IMITATION OF OUR OLD POETS. ON OURE LADYES CHIRCH. 1769.
  • HECCAR AND GAIRA AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE.
  • CHATTERTON'S WILL. 1770.
  • THE METHODIST. MAY 1770.
  • COLIN INSTRUCTED. 1770.
  • A BURLESQUE CANTATA. 1770.
  • SONG. FANNY[|BETSY] OF THE HILL. 1770.
  • BURLETTA. THE WOMAN OF SPIRIT. 1770.

Source editions

• Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; by Thomas Chatterton, the supposed author of the poems published under the names of Rowley, Canning, &c. London: printed for Fielding and Walker, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXVIII., 1778. xxxii,245,[3]p.,plates; 8⁰. (ESTC T39457; OTA K039720.000)
• Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770. A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton London: printed for T. Becket, in Pall-Mall; Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princes. MDCCLXXXIV., 1784. [6],ii,88p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T48948; OTA K045459.000)

Bibliography

ODNB 5189; NCBEL 605-609; DMI 1402

Manuscripts

• Smith, Margaret M. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. III, 1700-1800 . London: Mansell, 1986-1997. Pt. 1 Addison-Fielding. 195-214. Print. 4 volumes.

Editions

• Taylor, Donald S., ed. in association with Benjamin B. Hoover. The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Print.

Biography

• Kelly, Linda. The Marvellous Boy: The Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971. Print.
• Meyerstein, E. H. W. A Life of Thomas Chatterton. London: Ingpen and Grant, 1930. Print.

Bibliography

• Warren, Murray. A Bibliography of Thomas Chatterton. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 59-61. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33251.

Criticism

• Baines, Paul. 'All of the house of forgery': Walpole, Chatterton, and antiquarian commerce. Poetica (Japan) 39/40 (1994): 45-72. Print.
• Barry, Jonathan. Chatterton in Bristol. Angelaki 1(2) (Winter 1993-4): 55-81. Print.
• Cook, Daniel. Wordsworth's Chatterton. Essays in Criticism 66(1) (2016): 29-53. Print.
• Cook, Daniel. Thomas Chatterton and neglected genius, 1760-1830. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Print.
• Cook, Daniel. The Critical and the Curious: Thomas Chatterton's First Reviewers. Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism 15(2) (2009): 109-120. Print.
• Giovannelli, Laura. Falsi d'autore: Percy, Macpherson, Chatterton. Pisa: ETS, 2001. Print.
• Groom, Nick. Five poems wrongly attributed to Thomas Chatterton. Notes and Queries 56(3) (2009): 357-359. Print.
• Groom, Nick, ed. Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999. Print.
• Groom, Nick. Thomas Chatterton Was a Forger. Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 276-291. Print.
• Harvey, A. D. The Cult of Chatterton amongst English Poets c. 1770-c. 1820. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 39(2) (1991): 124-133. Print.
• Haywood, Ian. The making of history: a study of the literary forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in relation to eighteenth-century ideas of history and fiction. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London; Toronto: Assoc. UPs, 1986. Print.
• Heizmann, Jürgen. Chatterton oder Die Fälschung der Welt. Heidelberg: Mattes, 2009. Print.
• Heys, Alistair, ed. From Gothic to Romantic: Thomas Chatterton's Bristol. Bristol: Redcliffe, 2005. Print.
• Höfele, Andreas. Die Originalität der Fälschung: Zur Funktion des literarischen Betrugs in England 1750-1800. Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft 18(1-2) (1986): 75-95. Print.
• Lynch, Jack. Horry, The Ruffian, and the Whelp: Three Fakers of the 1760s. Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 225-242. Print.
• Mergenthal, Silvia. 'The Dead Poets' Society': Thomas Chatterton and the Romantics. Neumann, Fritz-Wilhelm, and Sabine Schülting, eds. Anglistentag 1998 Erfurt: Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1999. 287-295. Print.
• Morrison, Lucy. Chatterton and Keats: The Need for Close Examination. Keats-Shelley Review 10 (1996): 35-50. Print.
• Rawson, Claude. Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton. DeMaria, Robert, Jr., ed. British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999. 333-347. Print.
• Ruthven, K. K. Preposterous Chatterton. ELH 71(2) (2004): 345-75. Print.
• Taylor, Donald S. Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978. Print.
• Thomson, Heidi. A connection between Chatterton and Wordsworth in two Coleridge poems. Eighteenth-Century Life 32(2) (2008): 110-119. Print.