...romantiques anglais ont créé autour de lui une légende. On connaît les vers de Wordsworth : « I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, / The sleepless soul that perished in his pride 2 », vers qui sont cités tronqués, entiers ou déformés à plusieurs reprises dans le roman. Coleridge...

...Umstände (kein politisches Moment!) - die Offenherzigkeit der englischen Romantiker gegenüber Chatterton: I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride;25 And sit and rhyme and think on Chatterton, And that warm-hearted Shakspeare sent to meet him...

...keep them at bay. When Wordsworth wrote, in his career-crisis poem, 'Resolution and Independence', I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride; The phrase 'poor Keats' was common currency in contemporary periodicals. It is used by Hazlitt...

...Leech-gatherer whose resolution and perseverance encouraged him not to despair, Wordsworth remembers Bums and Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride... We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. The discrepancy...

...relationships displaced upwards to a spiritual realm. The echo of Matthew 6 at the end of stanza 6 ("But how can He expect that others should / Build for him, sow for him . . . who for himself will take no heed at all"), as Manning has pointed out, subtly invokes a spiritual...

...Sleepless Souls, pp. 1 80-8 1. 62 David Hume, On Suicide (1741-2), in Selected Essays (1993), p. 315. 63 I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride. William Wordsworth, 'Resolution and Independence' (1802), quoted in MacDonald and Murphy,...

...Coleridge. Yet Fergusson lives also in the lines which conclude the poem's most celebrated stanza: I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless...in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified; We Poets in our youth...

...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good;...how can He expect that others should Build for him, sou for him, and at his call Ixne him, who for himself will take no heed at all? VII I thought of Chatterton,...

...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good; But how can he expect that others should 40 Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?...

...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good;...Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all? As pressing as the problem of the poet's isolation in an economic world of labor is the problem of...