I guess I probably read this one way too soon after two very similar, a better other novels that cover a lot of the same ground. This novel is in the same tradition as novels like Possession, G., and Tim Powers’s The Anubis Gates. It’s about a literary figure of yore, one Thomas Chatterton, whose biography tells us was a young poet who wrote a series of poems, and died tragically at 18 from suicide. This is made even more mythic by his connections to other famous poets and […]