BIBLIOGRAPHY

Warren, Murray. A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Thomas Chatterton. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977, 130 p.

Includes an introduction which looks at Chatterton's roles as forger versus poet, and lists Chatterton's own works as well as literary criticism on Chatterton and literature based on his life.

BIOGRAPHY

Ackroyd, Peter. Chatterton. New York: Grove Press, 1987, 234 p.

Presents an anecdotal and conjectural story of Thomas Chatterton's life.

Kelly, Linda. The Marvellous Boy: The Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971, 141 p.

Examines the details of Chatterton's life as well as the events surrounding the “Rowley Controversy”; also discusses the ways in which the later Romantic writers and Pre-Raphaelite writers and painters mythologized Chatterton.

CRITICISM

Goldberg, Brian. “Romantic Professionalism in 1800: Robert Southey, Herbert Croft, and the Letters and Legacy of Thomas Chatterton.” ELH 63, No. 3 (Fall 1996): 681-706.

Discusses the manner in which Chatterton's fate influenced the Romantic poet Robert Southey as he set about defining writing as a profession.

Kuist, James M. “Introduction.” In Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley by Edmond Malone, 1782. Reprint. Los Angeles: William Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1966, pp. i-xiv.

Examines Malone's contribution to the “anti-Rowley” side of the debate regarding the authenticity of Chatterton's Rowley poems.

Lewis, Roger C. “A Misattribution: Oscar Wilde's ‘Unpublished Sonnet on Chatterton.’” Victorian Poetry 28, No. 2 (Summer 1990): 164-69.

Asserts that a poem on Chatterton that was thought to have been written by Oscar Wilde was in fact written by the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the poem is included in the article.

Taylor, Donald S. “Introduction.” In The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton: A Bicentenary Edition, edited by Donald S. Taylor with Benjamin B. Hoover, pp. xxv-xlv. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971.

Provides a chronology of the publication of Chatterton's works and discusses the difficulties inherent in locating accurate versions of the youthful writer's works.

Ting, Nai-Tung. “Chatterton and Keats: A Reexamination.” Keats-Shelley Journal XXX (1981): 100-17.

Argues that John Keats's poetry was influenced by the rhythms and descriptive language of Chatterton's work, but that the profundity of Keats's poetical insight remains uniquely his own.

Additional coverage of Chatterton's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 109; DISCovering Authors: Modules—Poets Module.