Authority Cited: Warton’s Spencer; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis
Author name and dates: Thomas Warton (1728-1790) [Youngest cited except Charlotte Lennox (1729/30 - 1804)]
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Warton cite identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Warton cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Warton cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The following Warton titles are in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman: #29 . . . Warton's Spenser, 2v.; #182 . . . Warton's life of Sir Thomas Pope; #535 3. Warton's history of English poetry, Vol. 1st. . . . ]
Author name and dates: Thomas Warton (1728-1790) [Youngest cited except Charlotte Lennox (1729/30 - 1804)]
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Critic; precursor of Romantic poets; friend of SJ; assisted SJ M.A.; satirized by SJ for supporting Gray poetry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Warton cite identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Warton cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Warton cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The following Warton titles are in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman: #29 . . . Warton's Spenser, 2v.; #182 . . . Warton's life of Sir Thomas Pope; #535 3. Warton's history of English poetry, Vol. 1st. . . . ]
- Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser. By Thomas Warton, A. M. Fellow of Trinity-College, Oxford. 1754, London : printed for R. and J. Dodsley; and J. Fletcher, in the Turl, Oxford; unfamiliar
- Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis (corrected in 4th ed.) The triumph of Isis, a poem. Occasioned by Isis, an elegy (pub. anonymously, undated). [1749], London: printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head near Temple-Bar,; dimply [BKG Note: Isis, an elegy is by William Mason.]
- Progress of Discontent, written at Oxford in 1746, pub. in the Student (1750) and in “Oxford Sausage” (1764) The Oxford Sausage: or, Select Poetical Pieces, written by the most celebrated wits of the University of Oxford, adorned with cuts, engraved in a new taste, and designed by the best masters. 1764, London: Printed for J. Fletcher and Company at the Oxford Theatre, in St. Paul's Churchyard; and sold by the booksellers of Oxford and Cambridge; imposition (added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: this is the first issue of the Oxford Sausage. Thomas Warton was the editor. The Progress of Discontent is at p. 29, with no author listed.]
- Warton (no work cited)