Question

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Five English Poets” attributes to this poet “Shakespeare’s manhood at a boy’s wild heart” and describes his soul ascending a spire’s “angel-trodden stair.” Queen Mab summons ghosts in the graveyard of St. Mary Redcliffe in this poet’s “The Parliament of Sprites.” The line “the budding floweret blushes at the light” opens the “Minstrel’s Marriage-Song” from this poet’s Aella, a Tragical Interlude. This poet, Sidney, and Lucan are called “inheritors of unfulfill’d renown” in Percy Shelley’s Adonais. (-5[1])The cover image of Peter Ackroyd’s novel (-5[1])about this poet is Henry Wallis’s painting of his death. (10[1]-5[1])Called a “marvellous Boy” in (10[1])William Wordsworth’s (10[1])“Resolution (10[1]-5[1])and Independence,” (10[1]-5[1])this Bristol poet tried to pass off his work (10[1])as (10[1])that of the 15th-century monk Thomas Rowley. For 10 points, name this poet whose suicide (10[1])at age 17 fascinated the Romantics. ■END■ (10[1]0[13])

ANSWER: Thomas Chatterton [prompt on Thomas Rowley until read by asking “what was his real name?”]
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