Chatterton by Ackroyd, Peter Seller S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA ILAB) Published Condition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Edition 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing ISBN Item Price $. · In the guise of a very old-fashioned work ostensibly about the eighteenth century poet Thomas Chatterton, Ackroyd’s novel proves decidedly contemporary. Thomas Chatterton (), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel/5(30).
The real Chatterton may have been less "marvellous Boy" than Zeitgeistmeister, but Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton is the genuine article, a contrivance of the highest order. Dennis Drabelle is a. Thomas Chatterton (), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel. In today's London, a young poet and an elderly novelist. Like Wilde, Peter Ackroyd has been much taken with Chatterton. In his novel ''The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde,'' he has Wilde writing: ''I was fascinated in those days also by Chatterton, Poe, Baudelaire and by the horror of their fate - when you are young, you play with the fire which you do not understand.
Chatterton by Ackroyd, Peter Seller S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA ILAB) Published Condition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Edition 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing ISBN Item Price $. Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Thomas Chatterton (), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel.
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