18th-century English literary historian, critic, and poet
For other people named Thomas Wharton, see Thomas Wharton (disambiguation).
Thomas Warton
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
In office 20 April 1785 – 21 May 1790
Monarch
George III
Preceded by
William Whitehead
Succeeded by
Henry James Pye
Personal details
Born
(1728-01-09)9 January 1728 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Died
21 May 1790(1790-05-21) (aged 62) Oxford, England
Parent
Thomas Warton (father)
Alma mater
Trinity College, Oxford
Occupation
Literary historian, critic, and poet
Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, following the death of William Whitehead.
He is sometimes called Thomas Warton the younger to distinguish him from his father, who had the same name. His most famous poem is The Pleasures of Melancholy, a representative work of the Graveyard Poets.
ThomasWarton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, following the...
ThomasWarton, the elder (c. 1688 – 10 September 1745), was an English clergyman and schoolmaster, known as the second professor of poetry at Oxford,...
His thinking is influenced by Marxism and Christianity. Formerly the ThomasWarton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992–2001)...
Reverend ThomasWarton, became vicar of Basingstoke. A few years later in Basingstoke, Joseph's sister Jane, also a writer, and his younger brother, Thomas Warton...
Tate; Nicholas Rowe; Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; ThomasWarton; Henry James Pye; Robert Southey; William Wordsworth; Alfred Tennyson;...
Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by ThomasWarton was a pioneering and influential literary history. Only three full volumes...
1927–2005), Scottish soccer referee ThomasWarton the elder (c. 1688–1745), English clergyman, schoolmaster and poet ThomasWarton (the younger) (1728–1790), English...
century, including figures such as Joseph Warton (headmaster at Winchester College) and his brother ThomasWarton, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University...
year's edition recognises that they were probably Chatterton's own work. ThomasWarton, in his History of English Poetry (1778) included Rowley among 15th-century...
London Gazette (Supplement). 26 April 1785. p. 205. Reid, Hugh (2006). "Warton, Thomas (1728–1790)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.)....
Oxford, the sonnet form was being revived by the group of poets about ThomasWarton, with which it has been argued that he was associated. The fourteen...
show the influence of the Graveyard School. Thomas Parnell John Keats ThomasWartonThomas Percy Thomas Gray Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Christopher...
Chivalric–Matriarchal reading of courtly love, put forth by critics such as ThomasWarton and Karl Vossler. This theory considers courtly love as the intersection...
half of the 18th century. Amongst the first to revive the form was ThomasWarton, who took Milton for his model. Around him at Oxford were grouped those...
interest in Elizabethan poetry was rekindled through the scholarship of ThomasWarton and others. The Lake Poets and other Romantics, at the beginning of...
interest in Elizabethan poetry was rekindled through the scholarship of ThomasWarton and others. However, the canon of Renaissance poetry was formed in the...
being borrowed from Islamic styles. The 18th-century English historian ThomasWarton summarized: "The marks which constitute the character of Gothic or Saracenical...
he managed and directed at the Smock Alley Theatre in conjunction with Thomas Sheridan, the father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. After his return to London...
sorely missed good company, which Goldsmith naturally provided in spades. Thomas De Quincey wrote of him "All the motion of Goldsmith's nature moved in the...
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