As an apprentice, he claimed to have discovered some poems by a 15th century monk named Thomas Rowley, most famously ?la.  Horace Walpole, leading writer of the day, rejected this find, and called the
As an apprentice, he claimed to have discovered some poems by a 15th century monk named Thomas Rowley, most famously ?la.  Horace Walpole, leading writer of the day, rejected this find, and called the boy a forger, and thus, at 17, the proud poet who had yet to publish a single work, drank arsenic and killed himself rather than starve to death.  For ten points, name this English poet to whom Keats dedicated a stanza of the Endymion and whose untimely death was the subject of a Henry Wallis painting.
As an apprentice, he claimed to have discovered some poems by a 15th century monk named Thomas Rowley, most famously ?
Thomas Chatterton