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Chatterton is a small village in the southern part of the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England. It is half a mile north of Ramsbottom town centre on the A676 between Bolton and Edenfield. For local government purposes, it receives services from Rossendale Borough Council and Lancashire County Council. Nearby are the village of Stubbins and ...
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge .
Thomas Chatterton (born November 20, 1752, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died August 24, 1770, London) was the chief poet of the 18th-century “Gothic” literary revival, England’s youngest writer of mature verse, and precursor of the Romantic Movement.
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The Chatterton Massacre took place on the morning of the 26 th of April 1826 outside Aitkens and Lords Mill, in the village of Chatterton, near Ramsbottom, east Lancashire. At least six people were shot dead by British soldiers.
Of all English poets, Thomas Chatterton seemed to his great Romantic successors most to typify a commitment to the life of imagination. His poverty and untimely suicide represented the martyrdom of the poet by the materialistic society of his time.
Chatterton is located in the county of Lancashire, North West England, one mile north of the town of Ramsbottom, five miles north of the major town of Bury, 155 miles north of Cardiff, 162 miles south of Edinburgh, and 175 miles north-west of London.
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