Bristol celebrates its poet genius who died at just 17

Poems, exhibitions and a comic book to mark talent of Thomas Chatterton, 250 years after death

He was revered by poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge and a romanticised painting depicting his deathbed remains an enduring image of doomed artistic talent.

Now a series of projects marking the 250^th anniversary of the death, at the age of 17, of Bristol-born Thomas Chatterton is under way to remind people of his extraordinary but often forgotten life, and, perhaps, inspire a new generation of Romantic poets.