Foreword: Thomas Chatterton; P.Ackroyd Introduction; N.Groom PART I: LIFE AND WORKS Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton; C.Rawson The Originality of Chatterton's Art; G.Lemoine 'On Tiber's Banks': Chatterton and Post-Colonialism; C.Williams The Mythical Image: Chatterton, King Arthur, and Heraldry; I.Bryden In Your Face; T.Morton 'This Necessary Knowledge': Thomas Chatterton's Understanding of the Bristol and London Book Trades; M.Suarez, SJ Appendix PART II: THE ROWLEY CONTROVERSY AND AFTER Chatterton and the Club; P.Rogers Chatterton and Johnson: Authority and Filiation in the 1770s; P.Baines Fragments, Reliques , & MSS: Chatterton and Percy; N.Groom Truth Sacrifising To The Muses: The Rowley Controversy and the Genesis of the Romantic Chatterton; M.G.Lolla Nostalgic Chatterton: Fictions of Poetic Identity and the Forging of a Self-taught Tradition; B.Keegan Chatterton's Poetic Afterlife 1770-1796: A Context for Coleridge's Monody ; D.Fairer Forging The Poet: Some Early Pictures of Thomas Chatterton; R.Holmes Afterword; M.Wood Rowley's Ghost: A Checklist of Creative Works Inspired by Thomas Chatterton's Life and Writings; J.Goodridge Index