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What did Chatterton look like?
Look in his glommed** face, his sprighte there scanne;
Howe woe-be-gone, howe withered, forwynd, deade!
**clouded, dejected. A person of some note in the literary world is of opinion, that glum and glom are modern cant words; and from this circumstance doubts the authenticity of Rowley’s Manuscripts.
(from ‘An Excelente Balade of Charitie’, with Chatterton’s footnote)
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Ireland, William Henry, The Confessions of William-Henry Ireland (London, 1805), 15–16, 13.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (Oxford, 1980), 14.
Blunt, Wilfred, My Diaries (1907).
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Holmes, R. (1999). Forging the Poet: Some Early Pictures of Thomas Chatterton. In: Groom, N. (eds) Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390225_14
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