Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.
Portrait of Vigny, attributed to François Kinson
Alfred de Vigny, by Antoine Maurin, 1832.
Sketch of Alfred de Vigny, by Prosper Mérimée.
Thomas Chatterton
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Thomas Chatterton was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
The Death of Chatterton, 1856, by Henry Wallis (Tate Britain, London)
Thomas Chatterton's Birthplace Home and Commemorative Plaque, Bristol
The wall at the right of the house where Chatterton was raised is that of the c. 1739 school where Chatterton's father was master. The school was demolished in 1939 to widen Pile Street into Redcliff Way, but the façade was rebuilt on the line of the former back wall.
Chatterton's Holiday Afternoon engraved by William Ridgway, after W.B. Morris, pub. 1875