Show odd quirk of nature in recognized genius the annals of literary forgery have no more pathetic instance than the so called rowley poems of thomas chatterton Cli atterton when chatte ton tod perhaps the most shining example of precocity to lie he found in literary history was welve twelve years old lie conceived the idea of the lie literary relies of a monk to whom jie he gave the name rowley and choir he ascribed to the century by tile lie time lie was seventeen lie hud had aroused some interest in the poems of rowley but not enough to satisfy sit his imagination so ile he wrote to horace walpole in some pages of and inferring lie had other papers and poems walpole wrote asking to see whatever documents lie he might haie hae and chatterion sent so many as 0 arouse Wal poles suspicion and cause him to mil call in the poets mason and cray alray they pronounced the poems a forgery walpole dispatched a letter of admonition to Clint Cli atterton three months later he be returned tile the manu mallu scripts which with fill the exception ot of one neer baw print until after chatterton Chat telton had bud taken ills life in III a moment of despair lie was not nil yet vet eighteen ahen he be died so brilliant so versatile was nag he that even bhoge con tell porn rl ej who condemned I 1 him that in III ninny respects he fie was a greater genius by some queer quirk ol of nature lie fie had chosen to 0 art act the I poster where lie he might with cery prospect of renown have produced ills work as his o own vu dearborn In depend ent |