1. The Enthusiast: or The Lover of Nature
2. Ode to Fancy

Notes on Life and Works

• Reid, Hugh. "Warton, Joseph (bap. 1722, d. 1800)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Sept. 2010.

Biographical information

Given name: Joseph
Family name: Warton
Birth date: ca. 22 April 1722
Death date: 23 February 1800
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Thomas Warton the elder
          wife: Charlotte Warton (from 1773)
          wife: Mary Warton (from 1748)
          brother: Thomas Warton the younger (poet)
          son: John Warton
          son: Joseph Warton
          son: Thomas Warton
          daughter: Harriet Elizabeth Warton
Languages
          English
          Latin
Education
          Grammar school at Basingstoke
          Winchester: 1735
          Oriel College, Oxford (B.A.): 16 January 1740 to 13 March 1744
Honours
          M.A., Oxford: 23 January 1759
          B.D., Oxford: 15 January 1768
          D.D.,Oxford: 15 January 1768
          Elected member of Literary Club: 1776
Patron: Duke of Bolton
Literary period: Augustan
Occupations
          Schoolmaster to 1755
          Curate: 1745
Residences
          Wickham to 23 February 1800
          Dunsfold, Surrey: 1722
          Chelsea: 1745
Illness: Smallpox
Buried at: Winchester Cathedral
First RPO edition: 1996-2000