Thomas Chatterton was born in Bristol on 20th November 1752 some 15 weeks after the death of his father. For a time he was admitted to Edward Colston's Bristol charity school, on a limited curriculum of reading, writing, arithmetic and the catechism. When Chatterton was 8 he was so eager for books that he would read and write all day long and by 11 he had become a contributor to Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. He lived in thought with his 15th-century heroes and heroines. The first of his literary mysteries, the dialogue of "Elinoure and Juga," was written before he was 12, and he showed it to the usher at the boarding school Colston's Hospital where he was a pupil, pretending it was the work of a 15th-century poet.

01 - The Poetry of Thomas Chatterton - An Introduction

02 - The Romance of the Knight by Thomas Chatterton

03 - Happiness by Thomas Chatterton

04 - Sentiment by Thomas Chatterton

05 - The Advice by Thomas Chatterton

06 - Picture of Autumn by Thomas Chatterton

07 - The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton

08 - The Copernican System by Thomas Chatterton

09 - Bristol by Thomas Chatterton

10 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, An Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton

11 - Sly Dick by Thomas Chatterton

12 - To Horace Walpole by Thomas Chatterton

13 - Colin Instructed by Thomas Chatterton

14 - Song, Fanny of the Hill, 1770 by Thomas Chatterton

15 - An Excellent Ballad of Charity by Thomas Chaterton

16 - Apostate Will by Thomas Chatterton

17 - The Methodist by Thomas Chatterton

18 - The Churchwarden and the Apparition. A Fable by Thomas Chatterton

19 - A Hymn for Christmas Day by Thomas Chatterton

20 - On the Last Epiphany (Or Christ Coming to Judgement) by Thomas Chatterton

21 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton

22 - Elegy by Thomas Chatterton

23 - Elegy on the Death of Mr Phillips by Thomas Chatterton

24 - Heccar and Gaira - An African Eclogue by Thomas Chatterton

25 - The Death of Nicou. An African Eclogue by Thomas Chatterton