Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease.

Read more about Thomas Chatterton:  Childhood, First "medieval" Works, Adopts persona of Thomas Rowley, Chatterton’s Search For A Patron, Political Writings, Determines On Leaving Bristol, Chatterton’s Swan Song, Posthumous Recognition, Works

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    Liste! now the thunder’s rattling clymmynge sound
    Cheves slowlie on, and then embollen clangs,
    Shakes the hie spyre, and losst, dispended, drown’d,
    Still on the gallard eare of terroure hanges;
    The windes are up; the lofty elmen swanges;
    Again the levynne and the thunder poures,
    And the full cloudes are braste attenes in stonen showers.
    —Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770)