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Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mythic afterlife of the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, whose early death was immortalised by poets, painters and photographers. Show more

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