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	Thomas Warton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Warton (January 9, 1728 – May 21, 1790) was an English academic and poet, holder of the title of Poet Laureate from 1785.
		Warton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, and was the younger brother of Joseph Warton.
		Warton contributed to the general project of the ballad revival.
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	THOMAS WARTON (1728-1790) - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS WARTON (1728-1790) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most of Warton's poetry, humorous and seriousand the humorous mock-heroic was better within his powers than serious versewas written before the age of twenty-three, when he took his M.A. degree and became a fellow of his college (Trinity, Oxford).
		Warton's poems were first collected in 1777, and he was engaged at the time of his death on a corrected edition, which appeared in 1791, with a memoir by his friend and admirer, Richard Mant.
		Warton directed the attention of readers to early English literature, and, in view of the want of texts, rendered inestimable service by transcribing large extracts from early writers.
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	WARTON, THOMAS (C. 1688-1745) - LoveToKnow Article on WARTON, THOMAS (C. 1688-1745) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warton was a prebendary of St Paul's and of Winchester Cathedrals, and held the livings of Upham and of Wickham, Hampshire, where he died on the 23rd of February 1800.
		WARTON, THOMAS (1728-1790), English poet-laureate and historian of poetry, younger son of Thomas Warton (see above), was born at Basingstoke on the gth of January 1728.
		WARWICK, SIR PHILIP (1609-1683), English writer and politician, was the son of Thomas Warwick, or Warrick, a musician, and was born in Westminster on the 24th of December 1609.
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		THOMAS WARTON was born In 1728 at Basingstoke, of which town his father (Thomas Warton, Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1718 to 1728) was vicar.
		Thomas Warton is in his poetry chiefly imitative, as was natural in so laborious a student of our early poetical literature.
		The real Warton is to be looked for in the writings in which these passions find their vent; in the History, in the Sonnets (a form of composition which he revived among us), and in the Humorous Pieces; not in the "quit-rent odes" which were wrung from him by the unhappy necessities of his laureateship.
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	§18. The Wartons. X. The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Warton the father was made professor of poetry at Oxford in 1718, and deserved it for his praise of the neglected early poems of Milton.
		Warton’s own poems, published by his son Thomas in 1748, contain some rather amazing borrowings from Milton’s volume of 1645; his paraphrase of Temple’s quotation from Olaus Wormius has been already mentioned.
		Warton was a tutor of Trinity, distinguished even at that time for neglect of his pupils and for a love of ale, tobacco, low company and of going to see a man hanged.
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	MSN Encarta - Thomas Warton
		Warton, Thomas (1728-1790), English literary historian, critic, and poet laureate.
		Warton was a member of an 18th-century family of English poets and critics that included his father Thomas Warton and his older brother Joseph, all forerunners of English romanticism.
		Warton, in 1782, was one of the first to detect the Middle English poems of Thomas Chatterton as forgeries.
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	Thomas Warton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Warton (January 9, 1728 – May 21, 1790) was an English academic and (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet, holder of the title of (The poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain) Poet Laureate from 1785.
		Warton was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Basingstoke) Basingstoke, (A county of southern England on the English Channel) Hampshire, (A division of the United Kingdom) England, and was the younger brother of (Click link for more info and facts about Joseph Warton) Joseph Warton.
		Warton contributed to the general project of the (A narrative poem of popular origin) ballad revival.
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	WARTON, THOMAS (C. 1688-1745) - LoveToKnow Article on WARTON, THOMAS (C. 1688-1745) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WARTON, THOMAS (C. 1688-1745) - LoveToKnow Article on WARTON, THOMAS (C. or The Lover of Nature, and remember that it was printed in 1744, the year of Pope's death.
		Warton himself appended essays on epic and didactic poetry, a life of Virgil and notes.
		Educated at Eton, he travelled abroad for some time and in 1636 became secretary to the lord high treasurer, William Juxon; later he was a member of the Long Parliament, being one of those who voted against the attainder of Strafford and who followed Charles I. to Oxford.
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	Lives of the English Poets - From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of - Johnson's Lives by Henry ...
		The life of Thomas Warton, by Dr. Mant, now Bishop of Killaloe, prefixed to the edition of his poems published at Oxford, is drawn from sources so authentic, and detailed with so much exactness, that little remains to be added to the circumstances which it relates.
		His grandfather, Anthony Warton, was rector of a village in Hampshire; and his father was a fellow of Magdalen College, and Poetry Professor in the University of Oxford.
		Thomas was born at Basingstoke, in 1728; and very early in life afforded promise of his future excellence.
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		Joseph Warton, brother of Thomas Warton, the younger, was born in 1722 in Dunsfold Surrey,...
		Thomas Warton was born on Jan. 9, 1728, in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
		Warton was a member of an 18th-century family of English poets and critics that included his father Thomas Warton and his older brother Joseph,...
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	Warton, Thomas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		the elder, c.1688-1745, English poet, father of Joseph and Thomas Warton.
		His collected poems, edited by Joseph Warton, and published posthumously in 1748, are primitive and biblical in tone; some are runic odes and may have influenced Thomas Gray.
		Thomas Warton's "Observations on the 'Faerie Queene' of Spenser", Samuel Johnson's "History of the English Language," and Warton's History of English Poetry": reciprocal indebtedness?
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	Thomas Warton, 1728–90, English poet and literary historian
		Thomas Warton, 1728–90, English poet and literary historian
		Warton, Thomas, 1728–90, English poet and literary historian, grad.
		The Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton
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		Warton's poems were first collected in 1777, and he was engaged at the See also:
		Another edition of this, stated to be " further improved by the corrections and additions of several eminent antiquaries," appeared in 184o.
		Of the poets of the 16th century he was an extremely sympathetic critic and has not been superseded.
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	Warton, Thomas, 1728-90, English poet and literary historian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warton, Thomas, 1728-90, English poet and literary historian.
		As a poet, Warton was more inclined toward light and humorous verse.
		See biographies by W. Ker (1911) and C. Rinaker (1916); study by E. Gosse (1915); J. Pittock, The Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton (1973).
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	Warton, Thomas, The Younger -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		poet laureate from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry, brother of the poet and critic Joseph Warton, and son of Thomas Warton the Elder (1688?–1745), professor of poetry at Oxford University (1718–26).
		His brother Thomas was poet laureate from 1785 to 1790.
		The poet laureate of the United Kingdom from 1785 to 1790 was Thomas Warton.
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	Thomas Warton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Warton (de enero el 9 de 1728 - de mayo el 21 de 1790) era un académico y poeta ingleses, sostenedor del título del laureado de poeta a partir de 1785.
		Warton fue llevado en Basingstoke, Hampshire, Inglaterra, y era el hermano más joven de José Warton.
		Warton contribuyó al proyecto general del renacimiento de la balada.
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	Warton, Thomas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trinity College, Oxford (1747), brother of Joseph Warton.
		He was ordained and eventually served as professor of poetry at Oxford from 1757 to 1767.
		Bibliography: See biographies by W. Ker (1911) and C. Rinaker (1916); study by E. Gosse (1915); J. Pittock, The Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton (1973).
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	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Warton, Thomas (1728 — 90)
		Warton is best known now for the first three volumes of his History of English Poetry (which he never completed), and his critical edition of Milton's early works.
		Woodsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb have all gone on record with favourable encomiums.
		But nowadays we might be more inclined to agree with Christopher North, who said of Warton that 'the gods had made him poetical, but not a poet'.
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	Thomas Warton - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are ...
		Warton (1728-90) was Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
		His early works consisted of poems, including the Triumph of Isis (1749), biographies of Ralph Bathhurst and Sir Thomas Pope, and a critical work called Observations of the Faerie Queen of Spenser (1754), which was praised by Johnson.
		He is best known for the present work, which Wellek calls Òthe first history of English literature of any scopeÉ[which] combines historical sense with a critical regard for the individual work, at least in theory and ambitionÓ (History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950, I, p.
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		Thomas Warton the elder, c.1688–1745, English poet, father of Joseph and Thomas Warton.
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		Thomas Warton, was born in Basingstoke, England on the 9th January 1728, son of Thomas Warton Snr, (poet 1688-1745), and younger brother to 'Joseph Warton'.
		THOMAS WARTON (1728 - 1790) Extract from a Review of Thomas Warton, from the book "The English Poets - Vol.
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		Joseph and Thomas Warton: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
		Thomas Warton's "Observations on the 'Faerie Queene' of Spenser", Samuel Johnson's "History of the English Language," and Warton's History of English Poetry":...
		The ascendancy of taste: The achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton (Ideas and forms in English literature)
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		Warton's Observations on the Fairy Queen, Part One (Cultural Formations)
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		Dating back to 1774, and published here in a reprint of the 1871 London edition edited by W. Carew Hazlitt, this work is the classic history of English poetry, capturing great amounts of material unique to this work and built upon in other histories.
		The most complete interpretation of Spenser's Fairy Queen, this is a facsimile reprint of the 1762 London publication, the second revised and enlarged edition of this work.
		The history of English poetry, from the close of the eleventh century to the commencement of the eighteenth century.
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		WARTON, THOMAS, EDITOR, The Union: or select Scots and English poems.
		Attractive contemporary calf, some rubbing, generally light, minor worming in lower corner, some browning from turn-ins, else a very nice copy.
		Hammond on page 57 (contents leaf gives page 47), entitled "A Love Elegy." Grey's "Elegy" is included, two original poems by "a Gentleman formerly of the University of Aberdeen" are among the selections as is a poem by Warton
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