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The Sleples Soule Yt Perishen Yn Hys Pryde
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"Unhinged, his young mind brightens like illuminated"
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2010
The Sleples Soule Yt Perishen Yn Hys Pryde
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Author's note: Born in Bristol, England, in 1725 [sic], Thomas Chatterton was a precocious poet who is infamously known as the forger of poems he attributed to a 15th century priest, Sir Thomas Rowley. His proud spirit, freethinking, melancholy temperament and descriptions of nature appealed to the Romantics. He died of arsenic poisoning on 24 August 1770, aged seventeen. He was buried in an unmarked grave which can no longer be found. There is no known portrait of this poet.
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