Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange:

Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness

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Thomas Warton (1728-1790)

English scholar and poet; author of The Pleasures of Melancholy (1747), Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser (1754), The History of English Poetry, 3 vols (1774-78). He succeeded William Whitehead as poet laureate in 1785. English scholar and poet; author of The Pleasures of Melancholy (1747), Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser (1754), The History of English Poetry, 3 vols (1774-78). He succeeded William Whitehead as poet laureate in 1785.