This article is about the book by Thomas Warton. For a historical survey of English poetry, see English poetry.
Title page of the first edition of volume 2
The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by Thomas Warton was a pioneering and influential literary history. Only three full volumes were ever published, going as far as Queen Elizabeth's reign, but their account of English poetry in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance was unrivalled for many years, and played a part in steering British literary taste towards Romanticism. It is generally acknowledged to be the first narrative English literary history.[1][2][3]
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^Wellek, René (1941). The Rise of English Literary History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 199–200.
^Mee, Jon (2009). McCalman, Iain; Mee, Jon; Russell, Gillian; Tuite, Clara; Fullagar, Kate; Hardy, Patsy (eds.). Warton, Thomas (1728-90). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199245437.001.0001. ISBN 9780199245437.
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