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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790 NRA: Warton Thomas (1728-1790) Poet Antiquary Literary Scholar DNB: Warton, Thomas (1728-1790), poet and historian LBT ID: ThWarto1790 VIAF ID: 44371601 LOC ID: n50028333 | B/BAP: 1728-01-09 DIED: 1790-05-21 |
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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. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Thomas Warton:
The History of English Poetry from the Close of the 11th to the Commencement
of the 18th Century, to which are prefixed two Dissertations: 1, On the Origin of Romantic
Fiction in Europe; 2, On the Introduction of Learning into England. Found 2.
Display Records “No. 33. Journal of a Fellow of a College” in The Idler. Found 1.
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Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser. Found 1.
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