Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History

by Donald S. Taylor

Book Overview

Thomas Chatterton's fabrications--or "forgeries"--of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of their authenticity since the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, his works have never before been the subject of a sustained serious and critical investigation that focused on his artistic achievement rather than on the legend and myth surrounding his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691614482
• ISBN13: 9780691614489
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"