Thomas Chatterton

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What Wikipedia says

Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet who committed suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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Image: Engraved by William Ridgway after a picture by W.B. Morris, published in The Art Journal, 1875, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.