I think the snark in me is officially on holidays…or currently too sick to write anything of true substance (or even to attempt to).
Managed to read, gee, all of…2 poems by Chatterton? The one I liked the most was the one ‘dedicated’ to Horace Walpole, author of the famous (and lengthy) Gothic classic The Castle of Otranto. I think I have one friend who has read the whole thing!
Chatterton didn’t like Walpole because when he sent his ‘medieval’ Rowley poems to Walpole for evaluation or whatever, Walpole was the one who raised the ‘fraudulent’ alarm. Chatterton has a little note at the end of the poem to claim that his sister persuaded him to not send it to Walpole as intended.
Shame - imagine the ruckus it would have created! Chuckle.
