Thomas Warton
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Thomas Warton (1728 – 1790) was an English literary historian, scholar, and poet.
He was Poet Laureate of England from 1785 to 1790.
Thomas Warton the younger is often referred to as the son of Thomas Warton the elder.
The Pleasures of Melancholy, his most popular poem, is a showcasing work of the Graveyard poets.
Life
Warton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of poet Thomas Warton, the Elder, and Joseph Warton and Jane Warton's younger brother. Warton demonstrated a keen predilection toward writing poetry as a youth, a talent he'll continue to develop throughout his life. Warton translated one of Martial's epigrams at nine years old and wrote The Pleasures of Melancholy at seventeen.
His early education was provided to him by his father at home. He entered Trinity College, Oxford, in March 1744, at the age of sixteen years old. He graduated from Oxford in 1747, where he later became a Fellow. Warton was first elected Poet Laureate of Oxford in 1747 and again in 1748. His job in this article was to write a poem about a select patroness of the university, which would be read to her on a specially appointed day.
Warton was named Professor of Poetry at the University in 1757, a position he held for ten years.
He was named rector of Kiddington, Oxfordshire, in 1771, a position he held until his death.
He was appointed as both a Camden Professor of History and a Poet Laureate in 1785. He was a friend and rival of Samuel Johnson, and his poetry was heavily influenced by earlier English poets such as Chaucer, Drayton, Fairfax, and Spenser.
Warton and his brother were among the first to argue that Sir Thopas, by Geoffrey Chaucer, was a parody. Warton was instrumental in the ballad revival's general scheme. He was a general supporter of Thomas Gray's poetry, a feature that Johnson satirized in his parody "Hermit hoar" in a solemn cell. An edition of Theocritus, a collection of Latin and Greek inscriptions, the humorous Oxford Companion (1762); Sir Thomas Pope and Ralph Bathurst's lives; and an inquiry into the authenticity of the Poems (1782).
Warton paid no attention to his clerical positions, and Oxford never stopped being his home. He was known as both a very social and knowledgeable don, as well as a scholar of taverns and crowds, as well as dim aisles and romances.