Excerpt from Thomas Chatterton: The Marvellous Boy, the Story of a Strange Life, 1752-1770 Thomas Chatterton With Shakespeare's manhood at a boy's wild heart, - Through Hamlet's doubt to Shakespeare near allied And kin to Milton through his Satan's pride, - At Death's sole door he stooped, and craved a dart; And to the dear new bower of England's art, - Even to that shrine Time else had deified, The unuttered heart that soared against his side, Drove the fell point, and smote life's seals apart. Thy nested home-loves, noble Chatterton, The angel-trodden stair thy soul could trace Up Redcliffe's spire; and in the world's armed space Thy gallant sword-play: - these to many an one Are sweet forever; as thy grave unknown And love-dream of thine unrecorded face. - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Five English Poets." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.