Selected Poetry of Thomas Warton the younger (1728-1790)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,
University of Toronto Libraries
© 2012, Ian Lancashire for the Department
of English, University of Toronto
Index to poems
- On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester
- The Pleasures of Melancholy
(excerpt)
- Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold's Painted Window at New College, Oxford
- Written at Stonehenge
Notes on Life and Works
- Reid, Hugh. "Warton, Thomas (1728–1790)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2006.
Biographical information
Given name: Thomas
Family name: Warton the younger
Birth date: 9 January 1728
Death date: 20 May 1790
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: Thomas Warton the elder
brother: Joseph Warton (poet)
Languages
English
Latin
Greek
Education
Trinity College, Oxford (B.A.): 16 March 1744 to 1747
Trinity College, Oxford (M.A.) to 1750
Trinity College, Oxford (B.D.) to 1767
Honours
Elected fellow of London Society of Antiquaries: 1771
Elected member of the Literary Club: 1782
Literary period: Augustan
Occupations
Tutor
Historian
Residence: Basingstoke: 9 January 1728
Illness: Gout: 1790
Cause of death: Paralytic stroke
Buried at: Trinity College ante-chapel
First RPO edition: 1996-2000
