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In her introduction to Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades (1782) by George Hardinge (1743–1816), Joan Pittock finds it ironical that the Rowley controversy culminated during a political crisis, ‘while monarchy and ministry were beset by the secession of the American colonies and corruption in the affairs of the East Indian company’.2 Hardinge himself considers it a momentary distraction, diverting attention ‘from the Res Romanae perituraque regna, to the kingdom of the Muses, and the disputed claims to different estates on Parnassus’.3 Nevertheless, Chatterton’s poetry resonates with political significances, unwittingly highlighted by Hardinge’s identification of British and Roman empires, and introduction of English literature into the realms of classical myth.
Rome burns
& our slavery begins
Kamau Brathwaite, ‘The Sahell of Donatello’, ll. 1–21
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Brathwaite, Kamau, Middle Passages (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1992), 56. With the kind permission of Bloodaxe Books, Ltd.
Hardinge, George, Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades: or, Nugœ Antiquœ et Novœ (London, 1782), ed. Joan Pittock (Los Angeles, 1979; Augustan Reprint 193), introduction, iii.
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The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt et al. (London, 1939–69), vii (1967), 252.
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Griffin, Jasper, The Mirror of Myth: Classical Themes and Variations (London, 1986), 58. For more on foodstuffs in Chatterton, see Timothy Morton, below.
See Bryant, Jacob, Observations upon the Poems of Thomas Rowley: in which the Authenticity of those Poems is Ascertained (London, 1781), 477.
See Sypher, Wylie, ‘Chatterton’s African Eclogues and the Deluge’, PMLA 55 (1939), 251. See also Michael Suarez, below.
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Williams, C.D. (1999). ‘On Tiber’s Banks’: Chatterton and Post-Colonialism. In: Groom, N. (eds) Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390225_4
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