|
Thomas Warton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Warton 1728-90, English poet and literary historian...College, Oxford (1747), brother of Joseph Warton. He was ordained and eventually served...extremely valuable scholarly work. As a poet, Warton was more inclined toward light and humorous...
|
|
|
Joseph Warton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Warton 1722-1800, English critic and poet, brother of Thomas Warton. Educated at Winchester and Oxford, he took holy orders in 1744...Pittock, The Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton (1973).
|
|
Warton, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Warton, Thomas ( c. 1688–1745), father of Joseph and Thomas Warton, was from 1718 to 1728 professor of poetry at Oxford; his poems, including some ‘runic odes’, were published posthumously in 1748, edited by his son Thomas.
|
|
|
Warton, Joseph
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Warton, Joseph (1722–1800), brother of Thomas Warton the younger, held various livings and was a conspicuously unsuccessful headmaster of Winchester (1766–93). He is better remembered as a critic of wide knowledge...
|
|
William Collins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...began his lifelong friendship with Joseph Warton and his own poetic career. In 1739 his...the Renaissance. In 1746 Collins and Warton planned the joint publication of their...little public appeal and published only Warton's. Although Collins's Odes on Several...
|
|
|
Partridge, Eric
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Pirates, Highwaymen and Adventurers and The Three Wartons, a selection of poetry by Thomas Warton, the elder, and his sons Joseph and Thomas Warton. He also published fiction, including the autobiographical novel Glimpses (1928), under...
|
|
|
Joseph Ritson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...scholar, b. Stockton-on-Tees. An industrious student of English literature, he attacked Thomas Warton's scholarship in Observations on Warton's History (1782) and disputed the originality of Bishop Percy's Reliques. He criticized Dr...
|
|
debauchery
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...particularly eating and drinking, the debauchee is laid bare in Thomas Warton the Elder's poem The Glutton (1747):Fat, pamper'd Porus...terrific State, Behind his chair what dire Diseases wait? Warton goes on to make explicit the relationship between gluttony and...
|
|
|
John Hawkesworth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Hawkesworth 1715?-1773, English author. He succeeded his friend Samuel Johnson in 1744 as reporter of parliamentary debates in the Gentleman's Magazine. With Johnson and Joseph Warton he wrote the periodical Adventurer (1752-54).
|
|
|
Ritson, Joseph
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...by ill health, which expressed itself in his attacks (often justified) on the works of fellow scholars: he challenged T. Warton's History of English Poetry (1782) and also Dr Johnson's and Steevens's edition of Shakespeare. In 1783 he published...
|
