Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy; the story of a strange life 1752-1770 . nd sun-burnt, doth appear,With his gold hand gilding the falling leaf,Bringing up Winter to fulfil the year,Bearing upon his back the ripened sheaf. The passing of the storm in the Excelente Baladeof Charitie is the first attempt in English to utilizetowards a designed effect both the sound resourcesand the picture resources of the language, and thesong to Birtha in Aella, Oh Sing unto myRoundelay, is the first attempt after Miltons1/Allegro to make a word melody directly accord-ant with the sense. The pictures scatt
Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy; the story of a strange life 1752-1770 . nd sun-burnt, doth appear,With his gold hand gilding the falling leaf,Bringing up Winter to fulfil the year,Bearing upon his back the ripened sheaf. The passing of the storm in the Excelente Baladeof Charitie is the first attempt in English to utilizetowards a designed effect both the sound resourcesand the picture resources of the language, and thesong to Birtha in Aella, Oh Sing unto myRoundelay, is the first attempt after Miltons1/Allegro to make a word melody directly accord-ant with the sense. The pictures scattered throughthe Rowley poems, as of Spring, beginning Thebudding floweret blushes at the light; of morning,The morn begins along the East to shine; thevital images of particular scenes, the clean work-manship and the controlling view, which is alwaysstrictly that of the artist, always of one possessedof a certain definite feeling and striving to transferthat feeling to others, crown this boy as the first ofthe new school. This excellent city of Bristol, that now gathers so. 5>£ 8 E -ac jj b: 1 5 THE WORLDS VERDICT 259 intelligently and guards so jealously the memorials ofher greatest son, was long accused of indifference tohis fame. Perhaps unjustly; but seventy years agothere was a vicar of St. Mary Redcliffe that obsti-nately refused to permit a monument of Chattertonto stand in the churchyard, and thus he clouded thecitys reputation. Yet I find in the City Library ofBristol an interesting pamphlet giving an accountof an honor paid to Chattertons memory that hashitherto escaped the notice of his biographers. Thepamphlet bears this title: The Ode, Songs, Choruses, &c. For the Concert in Commemoration of Chatterton, the Celebrated Bristol Poet, As it was performed at the Assembly Room in Princes Street, Bristol, on Friday, the 3rd of December, 1784. Written by Mr. Jenkins. Dear is his memory to us, and long Long, shall his attributes be known in song. — Chattertons Miscel
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