Project Gutenberg 2009-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 66 Malone, Edmond 1741 1812 Malone, Edmund Kuist, James M. 1935 68000963 Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) Produced by Louise Hope, Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley" by Edmond Malone is a critical analysis written in the late 18th century. The work discusses the authenticity of poems that were claimed to be written by the 15th-century priest Thomas Rowley but were actually fabricated by the poet Thomas Chatterton. Through rigorous examination and argumentation, Malone aims to refute the claims supporting the poems' authenticity and challenges their scholarly defenders. The opening of the text sets the stage for the Rowley controversy, revealing the tension surrounding the debate about the poems' legitimacy. Malone outlines previous arguments made by Rowley supporters and acknowledges the growing significance of this literary dispute as it gained public attention during the late 18th century. He establishes the groundwork for his critique by stating that a competent judge of the poems must possess a critical understanding of English poetry. He then introduces his points of contention, including the smoothness of the verse and modern phrases present in the poems, presenting them as significant evidence against their claimed antiquity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770 -- Authorship Milles, Jeremiah, 1714-1784 Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804 Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History -- 18th century Medievalism -- England -- History -- 18th century Middle Ages in literature PR Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature 200302 200330 2024-09-12T13:02:11.925787 2023-09-13T05:24:19.352817 text/html text/html 198682 2021-01-05T04:48:14 text/html; charset=utf-8 78214 2021-01-05T04:48:14 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 155432 2024-09-12T13:02:19.907779 application/epub+zip 156671 2024-09-12T13:02:15.222772 application/epub+zip 141154 2024-09-12T13:02:13.815752 application/epub+zip 411106 2024-09-12T13:02:23.161701 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 393862 2024-09-12T13:02:18.955741 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 189286 2022-09-13T13:40:11.523280 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 160959 2024-09-12T13:02:11.200754 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 162460 2021-01-05T04:48:14 text/plain; charset=utf-8 63606 2021-01-05T04:48:14 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 160570 2021-01-05T04:48:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 62995 2021-01-05T04:48:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20938 2024-09-12T13:02:23.314693 application/rdf+xml 24613 2024-09-12T13:02:14.186773 image/jpeg 4454 2024-09-12T13:02:13.998758 image/jpeg 152347 2024-09-12T13:02:11.948818 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog