Thomas Chatterton was the author of several pseudo fifteenth-century poems supposedly written by monk Thomas Rowley.
He committed suicide in his London garret by taking arsenic at age seventeen, driven to despair by poverty.
He became a hero of native English verse to Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats.
Chatterton was the author of several pseudofifteenth-century poems supposedly written by monk Thomas Rowley. He committed suicide in his London