Thomas Warton

(1728-1790)

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 Thomas Warton: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 16 March 1793 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 23 October 1795 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 13 April 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Roscoe to John Aikin, [1810] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 29 June 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Verse 1: p. 248a Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 4 September 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 5 September 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Henry Blanch Rosser, 27 March 1820 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Childhood Acquaintances,” 1 August 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) PREFACE. Found 1: ¶ n2 Robert Southey to John May, 4 March 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 18 February 1826 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. IV. 1765-1766 Found 1: ¶ n2 Ch. XIV. 1786-1789 Found 1: ¶ 9 Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 10 Life of Byron: 1811 Verse 1: p. 248a Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XVII. 1820-1823 Robert Southey to John Miller, 20 July 1835 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 8 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter XII 1803-04 Found 1: ¶ 30 Chapter II 1813 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: II Ch. I. 1791-93 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. III. 1794-95 Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Ch. XV. 1809 Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. XVIII. 1813 Ch. XXV. 1820-1821 Ch. XXIX. 1825-1826 Ch. XXXVI. 1834-1836 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. X. 1819-1824 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1829