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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Tate; Nicholas Rowe; Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; Thomas Warton; Henry James Pye; Robert Southey; William Wordsworth; Alfred Tennyson;...
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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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    English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in December 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position. The son of a baker, Whitehead was born in Cambridge...
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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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  • of Sardinia, as the result of a duel. May – Following the death of Thomas Warton, William Hayley refuses an offer to succeed him as Poet Laureate of...
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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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    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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    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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  • French) Thomas Tyrwhitt – A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poems, called Rowley's Joseph Warton – An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope Thomas Warton...
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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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  • 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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    House in Berkshire, and his wife, Mary James. He was the nephew of Admiral Thomas Pye. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. His father died in 1766...
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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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  • Gloucester Journal. Horace Walpole begins the Strawberry Hill Press. Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. John Brown...
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  • Heyat Mahmud – Hitaggyānbāṇī; Bengali Christopher Smart – The Hilliad Thomas Warton – The Union George Whitefield – Hymns for Social Worship Theophilus...
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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. However, the canon of Renaissance poetry was formed in the...
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  • The Passions Thomas Cooke – An Ode on Martial Virtue Robert Dodsley – The Oeconomy of Human Life Mary Jones – Miscellanies Thomas Warton – The Triumph...
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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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  • Dorothea Du Bois (Dorothea Annesley), Irish writer (died 1774) January 9 – Thomas Warton, English literary historian and poet laureate (died 1790) March 11 –...
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  • America William Dodd – Thoughts in Prison William Roscoe – Mount Pleasant Thomas Warton – Poems Paul Whitehead – Poems Nicolás Fernández de Moratín – Las naves...
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