Chatterton: A Biographical Study - Couverture souple

Wilson, Professor Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 142863164X ISBN 13 : 9781428631649

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2006

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Nobody, says Johnson, can write the life of a man, but one who has eat and drunk, and lived in social intercourse with him. The time, therefore, is past for writing a true life of Chatterton ;for on the 24th of A ugust, 1870, a century will have elapsed since his brief career ended in despair. But it is not too late, but rather, perhaps, a fitting time, for an appeal against the judgment pronounced on him by interested or vindictive contemporaries. Did I not believe that the boy-poet has been misjudged, and that the biographies hitherto written of him are not only imperfect but untrue, I should not now produce this study of a life which has long been to myself a subject of interest. The first editions of Chatterton sworks were not only very defective, but their editors proceeded on the assumption that he was not the author. The earliest edition with any pretension to completeness is that of Southey and Cottle; but to all appearance the former contributed little more than the preface. Writing to his co-editor in August 1802, Southey says :W ell done, good and faithful editor. I suspect that it is fortunate for the edition of Chatterton that its care has devolved upon you. He had previously said of Dr. Gregory slife of the poet: It is a bad work. Coleridge should write a new one; or, if he declines it, let it devolve on me. Nevertheless the co-editor had to prefix this condemned work to their collection of the poets
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 142863164X
• ISBN 13: 9781428631649
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388
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