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'...These reprints will go a significant way towards enabling a reconceptualization of the later 18th century, and restoring this perversely neglected episode to literary history.' - Nick Groom, Times Higher Education Supplement
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The revival of interest in medieval life and literature during the 18th century led to a fanatical search for antiquarian literary treasures - forgers such as James Macpherson, William Henry Ireland and Thomas Chatterton provided them to their willing and eager patrons. Chatterton wrote on scraps of old parchment and posed it as the work of Thomas Rowley and others. The publication of Thomas Tyrwhitt's first collection of Rowley poems in 1777 gave rise to a heated literary controversy regarding their authenticity. This is a collection of the major contemporary contributions to this controversy, all of which are extremely rare.
Contents:
First Collected Edition of the Rowley Poems [1777] Thomas Chatterton; Thomas Tyrwhitt (Ed) 336 pp
The Life of Thomas Chatterton with Criticisms on his Genius and Writings and a Concise View of the Controversy Concerning Rowley's Poems [1789] George Gregory 272 pp
The Lifeof Thomas Chatterton Including his Unpublished Poems and Correspondence [1837] John Dix 346 pp
Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley, a Priest of the Fifteenth Century [1782] Edmund Malone 66 pp
An Essay on the Evidence, External and Internal, Relating to the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley [1783] Thomas James Mathias 130 pp
An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley [1782] Thomas Warton 128 pp
A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton [1779] Horace Walpole 58 pp
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