Saving Chatterton: imagining historical transmission in Coleridge.(Thomas Chatterton's romantic poetry)(Critical Essay)

Wordsworth Circle | June 22, 2005| | Copyright

The figure of Thomas Chatterton appears in Romantic writing as a tragedy of lost potential. (1) This image was so common by the mid-1790s that the representation shifted from the historical (the tragedy of Chatterton himself) to the rhetorical (the symbol of Chatterton as tragedy). In "On Observing a Blossom on the First of February, 1796," for instance, Coleridge introduces Chatterton to arouse sympathy with a flower that bloomed too soon and was doomed by the return of winter: 

 
    .... shall I liken thee 
    To some sweet girl of too too rapid growth 
    Nipp'd ...

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