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Book of Days: Volume I
January February March April
May June July August
September October November December
 
March Days
 
1 video: All About Eve - Martha's Harbour
2 video: All About Eve - December
3 Thesesus killing the Minotaur
4 Illusory Skull / Death Car
5 The Art of Vampire Hunter D
6 short film : Vincent by Tim Burton
7 short film: Life and Death of a Pumpkin
8 vintage art: Temptation
9 Black Books from the BBC
10 Glaucus et Scylla by Rosa
11 The Worms Crawl In...
12 The Premature Burial by Antoine Wiertz
13 St. Theresa by Bernini
14 video: The Tell Tale Heart
15 The Ides of March - The Death of Caesar
16 "Mad as a March Hare"
17 The Symbolism of Baphomet
18 The Sigil of Baphomet
19 "Memento Mori"
20 The Seven Deadly Sins
21 Ajax and Cassandra
22 art: Death Claims the Gluttonous Sinner
23 art: Death Claims a Suicide
24 art: Death Claims an Infant Child
25 Ossuary Chapel
26 Bone Pyramid
27 Death of Marat: Jacques-Louis David
28 Death of Marat: Edvard Munch
29 Rob Zombia: Dargula
30 The Death of Thomas Chatterton: Wallis
31 Sly Dick by Thomas Chatterton
 
 
March 30, 2007
 
'The Death of Thomas Chatterton' by Henry Wallis
death of thomas chatterton - henry wallis - 1800
The English poet Thomas Chatterton was a mere 17 years old when he died in 1770 as a result of arsenic poisoning. Though he has come to be regarded as something of a patron saint to the cause of teenage suicide prevention, it will never be known if his death was an intentional suicide or the result of self-medicating to cure a venerial disease.

Chatterton was the primary poet of the 18th-century Gothic literary revival, and had a great influence on the Romantic Movement. He became notorious as a result of a hoax in which he convinced many of his contemporaries, including Horace Walpole, of the authenticity of a number of forged poems supposedly written by a 15th Century monk whose existence Chatterton had invented.

Thomas Chatterton was buried in London at the Shoe Lane Workhouse Cemetery, The cemetery no longer exists, and the location of Chatterton's remains has been lost.
 
 
 
         
           
 
 
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