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Thomas Warton the elder, c.1688-1745, English poet, father of Joseph and Thomas Warton. He was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1718 to 1728. His collected poems, edited by Joseph Warton, and published posthumously in 1748, are primitive and biblical in tone; some are runic odes and may have influenced Thomas Gray .

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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.

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poets laureate

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poets laureate

¹ post not officially established until 1668; the previous laureates had included Ben Jonson
² Appointed after Thomas Gray declined
³ Appointed after Samuel
1668	John Dryden¹
1689	Thomas Shadwell
1692	Nathum Tate
1715	Nicholas Rowe
1718	Laurence Eusden
1730	Colley Cibber
1757	William Whitehead²
1785	Thomas Warton
1790	Henry Pye
1813	Robert Southey
1843	William Wordsworth
1850	Alfred, Lord Tennyson³
1896	Alfred Austin
1913	Robert Bridges
1930	John Masefield
1968	Cecil Day Lewis
1972	Sir John Betjeman
1984	Ted Hughes
1999	Andrew Motion

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