A painting by Henry Wallis depicts the 1770 suicide of this poet in an attic in London.
A painting by Henry Wallis depicts the 1770 suicide of this poet in an attic in London. Born in 1752, he wrote "Apostate Will" and "The Revenge", but did not admit to the authorship of his most famous works. His most famous work focuses on a Bristol romance involving William Canynges, a merchant who became lord mayor. For ten points, name the poet who committed suicide at age 17 after having deceived contemporary scholars into thinking that his poems were those of a fictional 15th-century monk, Thomas Rowley.
A painting by Henry Wallis depicts the 1770 suicide of this poet in an attic in London.
Thomas Chatterton