The Complete Poetical Works Of Thomas Chatterton - Volumes I & Ii

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. After impressing the likes of the Lord Mayor, William Beckford and the ...