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    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...
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  • Thomas Warton, the elder (c. 1688 – 10 September 1745), was an English clergyman and schoolmaster, known as the second professor of poetry at Oxford,...
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    have varied widely regarding Wyatt's work. Eighteenth-century critic Thomas Warton considered Wyatt "confessedly an inferior" to his contemporary Henry...
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    Tate; Nicholas Rowe; Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; Thomas Warton; Henry James Pye; Robert Southey; William Wordsworth; Alfred Tennyson;...
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    Reverend Thomas Warton, became vicar of Basingstoke. A few years later in Basingstoke, Joseph's sister Jane, also a writer, and his younger brother, Thomas Warton...
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  • as Robert Warton, (died 1557), English Benedictine abbot Thomas Warton (1728–1790) English literary historian and Poet Laureate Thomas Warton the elder...
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    His thinking is influenced by Marxism and Christianity. Formerly the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992–2001)...
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    translated and "improved." Percy was a friend of Samuel Johnson, Joseph and Thomas Warton, and James Boswell. In 1764, Dr Johnson and others encouraged Percy...
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    Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by Thomas Warton was a pioneering and influential literary history. Only three full volumes...
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    a member of a literary family. Jane Warton was the daughter of Thomas (1688–1745) and Elizabeth (1691–1762) Warton. She was baptized in 1724 in Basingstoke...
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  • 1927–2005), Scottish soccer referee Thomas Warton the elder (c. 1688–1745), English clergyman, schoolmaster and poet Thomas Warton (the younger) (1728–1790), English...
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    century, including figures such as Joseph Warton (headmaster at Winchester College) and his brother Thomas Warton, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University...
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    year's edition recognises that they were probably Chatterton's own work. Thomas Warton, in his History of English Poetry (1778) included Rowley among 15th-century...
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    London Gazette (Supplement). 26 April 1785. p. 205. Reid, Hugh (2006). "Warton, Thomas (1728–1790)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.)....
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  • Recurrence". www.cancernetwork.com. Retrieved 2017-12-18. Williams, Jake Thomas Warton; Pearce, Alison; Smith, Allan 'Ben' (August 2021). "A systematic review...
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    American Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (b. 1743) May 21 – Thomas Warton, English poet (b. 1728) May 23 – George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu...
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    Gilbert White was educated in Basingstoke by Thomas Warton, father of Joseph Warton and Thomas Warton, who would have been Gilbert's school fellows....
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    century, including figures such as Joseph Warton (headmaster at Winchester College) and his brother Thomas Warton, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University...
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    interest in Elizabethan poetry was rekindled through the scholarship of Thomas Warton and others. The Lake Poets and other Romantics, at the beginning of...
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  • show the influence of the Graveyard School. Thomas Parnell John Keats Thomas Warton Thomas Percy Thomas Gray Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Christopher...
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    interest in Elizabethan poetry was rekindled through the scholarship of Thomas Warton and others. However, the canon of Renaissance poetry was formed in the...
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    Thomas Warton the elder from 1723 until his death in 1745. The 300-line poem The Pleasures of Melancholy, written by the precocious younger Warton at...
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  • Oxford, the sonnet form was being revived by the group of poets about Thomas Warton, with which it has been argued that he was associated. The fourteen...
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    Chivalric–Matriarchal reading of courtly love, put forth by critics such as Thomas Warton and Karl Vossler. This theory considers courtly love as the intersection...
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    H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Philip Larkin, and seven poets laureate: Thomas Warton, Henry James Pye, Robert Southey, Robert Bridges, Cecil Day-Lewis, Sir...
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    Aris (1853). The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew Green, And Thomas Warton. London: Routledge & Sons. p. 112. The...
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    being borrowed from Islamic styles. The 18th-century English historian Thomas Warton summarized: "The marks which constitute the character of Gothic or Saracenical...
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    between Dover and Shakespeare were Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Thomas Warton, and Edmond Malone; historian Jean Wilson has commented that it required...
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    half of the 18th century. Amongst the first to revive the form was Thomas Warton, who took Milton for his model. Around him at Oxford were grouped those...
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    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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