[23] Look at.

[24] Blake was an early adherent of the "Gothic artists who built the
Cathedrals in the so-called Dark Ages . . . of whom the world was not
worthy." Mr. Rossetti has pointed out his obligations to Ossian and
possibly to "The Castle of Otranto." See Blake's poems "Fair Eleanor"
and "Gwin, King of Norway."

[25] Chatterton's sister testifies that he had the romantic habit of
sitting up all night and writing by moonlight. Cambridge Ed. p. lxi.

[26] Other standard lives of Chatterton are those by Gregory, 1789,
(reprinted and prefixed to the Southey and Cottle edition): Dix, 1837;
and Wilson, 1869.

[27] Rowleian: there is no such instrument known unto men. The romantic
love of _color_ is observable in this poem, and is strong everywhere in
Chatterton.

[28] See also the sonnet: "O Chatterton, how very sad thy fate"--Given in
Lord Houghton's memoir. "Life and Letters of John Keats": By R. Monckton
Milnes, p. 20 (American Edition, New York, 1848).

[29] Chatterton, Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley. "The absolutely
miraculous Chatterton," Rossetti elsewhere styles him.

[30] "Historie du Romantisme," pp. 153-54.

[31] "Chatterton," a drama by Jones and Herman, was played at the
Princess' Theater, London, May 22, 1884.