Chatterton: A Biographical Study (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This critical judgment of Professor Masson might have been expected to prepare the way for a juster estimation of the poet. But he was followed almost immediately by Dr. Maitland, with his Chatterton an Essay, in which all the calumny of former traducers is reiterated with keener intensity than ever: An owl mangling a poor dead nightingale, as Coleridge said of the earlier stupidities of Dea. Milles.

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