Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
The Poetry Of Thomas Chatterton - Vol 3 - "You must know that 19-20th of my composition is pride" - cover

We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

The Poetry Of Thomas Chatterton - Vol 3 - "You must know that 19-20th of my composition is pride"

Thomas Chatterton

Publisher: Portable Poetry

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Thomas Chatterton was born on November 20th, 1752 in Bristol.  Somewhat lonely as a child his consuming interest was the contents of several chests of books, parchments and documents in the church at St Mary Redcliff of which his family was sexton.  By the age of twelve he had written “Elinoure and Juga”. Knowing that the works of such a youngster would not be taken seriously he continued to write but to present them to the world as the work of others long before him.  His hoaxes were enormously successful.  He moved to London to find patronage and to escape his poverty but in the end although his works continued their brilliant trajectory he could gain no financial comfort.  On 24th August 1770, aged just seventeen years and nine months, he retired to his small Brook Street attic for the final time, carrying the arsenic with which would kill himself, desperately and hopelessly tore up his remaining work, and drank.  In the third of three volumes we bring you some of his acclaimed and fascinating works.
Available since: 10/22/2013.

Other books that might interest you

  • Hamlet - cover

    Hamlet

    William Shakespeare

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years – we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.
    Show book
  • Notes from a Shipwreck - cover

    Notes from a Shipwreck

    Jessica Mookherjee

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Notes from a Shipwreck, the third collection of poetry by Jessica Mookherjee, is a richly detailed and illuminating voyage of dislocation and longing. By turns evocative, unsettling, and full of 'small acts of magic', Mookherjee simultaneously finds the past, present, and future in the tempestuous, lyrical tides that flow through her poems.
    Here, seafaring lore and shanties interweave with wreckage and survival, drawn by strong currents of history – where migration, colonialism, pandemics and climate change shape the course we are on. The sea is a territory of grief and transformation, alluring and dangerous, where safe harbours and landfall are not always certain. Mookherjee's enchanting, salt-sharp poetry encompasses the many journeys embarked on – whether seeking refuge, escape, or into exile – and consider not only the deep blue sea and its myriad mythologies, but to understand 'what makes a land and person,' – the keen human instinct to seek belonging.
    Show book
  • The Misanthrope And Tartuffe - cover

    The Misanthrope And Tartuffe

    Molière Molière

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The Pulitzer Prize winner’s classic translations of Moliere’s comic masterpieces satirizing shallowness, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy. 
     
    The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and sincerity are too rigorous for his time. In Tartuffe, a wily, opportunistic swindler manipulates a wealthy prude and bigot through his claims of piety. This latter translation earned Wilbur a share of the Bollingen Translation Prize for his critically acclaimed work of this satiric take on religious hypocrisy. 
     
    In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance. 
     
    “Mr. Wilbur has given us a sound, modern, conversational poetry and has made Moliere’s The Misanthrope brilliantly our own.” —The New York Times Book Review 
     
    “Richard Wilbur’s translation of Tartuffe is a continuous delight from beginning to end.” —Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning poet Richard Eberhart
    Show book
  • The Australian Citizenship Ceremony - cover

    The Australian Citizenship Ceremony

    Nathan Cummins

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Based on true events, two men, both desperate and looking for a better life. 
    The Australian Citizenship Ceremony tells the story of Awsame (Awe-sa-me) and Barrisa (ba-ris-a) who escape their homelands in Africa and face the trials of hunger, people smuggling, exploitation and the politics of being a modern day refugee. The hardships they face forge the characters they become with hope, determination and humour their only munition as they tackle the challenges of integration and migrant life. 
    A colourful and enriching story. 'If you didn't laugh you'd cry'
    Show book
  • Act One - from the Autobiography by Moss Hart - cover

    Act One - from the Autobiography...

    James Lapine

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A boy from the Bronx becomes the toast of Broadway. Moss Hart’s classic stage autobiography is brought to life, with his son Christopher directing, in a story that illuminates the early years of one of theater’s great humorists.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:Paul Culos as Eddie, Sam Harris, and ReganHeidi Dippold as Lillie Hart, Dorothy ParkerJake Green as Irving, SlimowitzJane Kaczmarek as Aunt Kate, Beatrice Kaufman, Frieda FishbeinAnna Mathias as Edna Ferber, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. RosenbloomAndre Sogliuzzo as Jed Harris, Augustus Pitou, Max SiegelDaniel David Stewart as Mossy, Bernie, DoreMark Jude Sullivan as MossJon Tenney as Hart, Father, KaufmanOther roles played by members of the company.Original Music by Louis Rosen from his Broadway score
    Show book
  • Metamorphosis (NHB Modern Plays) - (stage version) - cover

    Metamorphosis (NHB Modern Plays)...

    Franz Kafka

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Gregor Samsa wakes up each morning, quietly leaves the house to take the same train, and works to pay off the family debt.
    But that world explodes one morning, when Gregor awakes to find himself changed. To those around him he is dangerous, untouchable vermin. Worse than that, he is a burden.
    Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka's shocking tale of cruelty and kindness, has been a literary landmark since it was first published in 1915. Lemn Sissay's thrilling stage adaptation is a visceral and vital depiction of humans struggling within a system that crushes them under its heel. It was commissioned and first produced in 2023 by Frantic Assembly, in a co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth, Curve, MAST Mayflower Studios, and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, and was directed by Scott Graham.
    Show book