Thomas Warton

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Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• FIVE PASTORAL ECLOGUES. ()
• NEWMARKET. A SATIRE. ()
• ODE FOR MUSIC. PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE IN OXFORD, ON THE SECOND OF JULY, MDCCLI, BEING THE ANNIVERSARY APPOINTED BY THE LATE LORD CREW, BISHOP OF DURHAM, FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS TO THE UNIVERSITY. ()
• ODE ON THE APPROACH OF SUMMER. ()
• ODE TO HORROR. IN THE ALLEGORIC, DESCRIPTIVE, ALLITERATIVE, EPITHETICAL, FANTASTIC, HYPERBOLICAL, AND DIABOLICAL STYLE OF OUR MODERN ODE-WRIGHTS, AND MONODY-MONGERS. ()
• On BATHING. A SONNET. ()
• ON THE BIRTH OF GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES. WRITTEN AFTER AN INSTALLATION AT WINDSOR, MDCCLXII. ()
• ON THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND, AND ACCESSION OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD. ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM PITT, ESQ. BEING THE CONCLUDING COPY OF OXFORD VERSES. ()
• ON THE MARRIAGE OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE. TO THE QUEEN. ()
• A PANEGYRIC on ALE. ()
• THE PLEASURES of MELANCHOLY. Written in the Year 1745. ()
• The Progress of DISCONTENT. A POEM. Written at Oxford in the Year 1746. ()
• A SONNET; written at W—DE in the Absence of —. ()
• THE TRIUMPH OF ISIS. OCCASIONED BY THE FOREGOING POEM. ()

• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.004)
  • THE PLEASURES of MELANCHOLY. Written in the Year 1745.
  • A SONNET; written at W—DE in the Absence of —.
  • On BATHING. A SONNET.
  • The Progress of DISCONTENT. A POEM. Written at Oxford in the Year 1746.
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. VI. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.006)
  • A PANEGYRIC on ALE.
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. I. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1122; OTA K093079.001)
  • THE TRIUMPH OF ISIS. OCCASIONED BY THE FOREGOING POEM.
  • NEWMARKET. A SATIRE.
  • ON THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND, AND ACCESSION OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD. ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM PITT, ESQ. BEING THE CONCLUDING COPY OF OXFORD VERSES.
  • ON THE MARRIAGE OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE. TO THE QUEEN.
  • ON THE BIRTH OF GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES. WRITTEN AFTER AN INSTALLATION AT WINDSOR, MDCCLXII.
  • ODE FOR MUSIC. PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE IN OXFORD, ON THE SECOND OF JULY, MDCCLI, BEING THE ANNIVERSARY APPOINTED BY THE LATE LORD CREW, BISHOP OF DURHAM, FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
  • ODE ON THE APPROACH OF SUMMER.
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. II. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1135; OTA K093079.002)
  • FIVE PASTORAL ECLOGUES.
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1137; OTA K093079.004)
  • ODE TO HORROR. IN THE ALLEGORIC, DESCRIPTIVE, ALLITERATIVE, EPITHETICAL, FANTASTIC, HYPERBOLICAL, AND DIABOLICAL STYLE OF OUR MODERN ODE-WRIGHTS, AND MONODY-MONGERS.

Source editions

• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.004)
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. VI. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.006)
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. I. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1122; OTA K093079.001)
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. II. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1135; OTA K093079.002)
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1137; OTA K093079.004)

Bibliography

DMI 2292; ODNB 28799; NCBEL 44, 690, 1754; DLB 109

Manuscripts

• Smith, Margaret M. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. III, 1700-1800 . London: Mansell, 1986-1997. Pt. 4 Sterne-Young. 455-509. Print. 4 volumes.

Editions

• Fairer, David, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Warton. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Print.
• Mant, Richard, ed. The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton, B.D. Oxford: OUP, 1802. Print. 2 volumes.
• The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr Samuel Johnson: and the most approved translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A. Vol. XVIII. London: J. Johnson et al., 1810. 73-141. Google Books edition. Web. 13 Feb. 2016. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=b0LVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73

Biography

• Rinaker, Clarissa. Thomas Warton: A Biographical and Critical Study. Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, vol. 2, no. 1. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1916. Print.
• Vance, John A. Joseph and Thomas Warton. Boston: Twayne, 1983. Print.

Bibliography

• Vance, John A. Joseph and Thomas Warton. An Annotated Bibliography. New York and London: Garland, 1983. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 358-359. Print.
• Fairer, David. English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century 1700-1789. Longman Literature in English Series. Harlow: Longman, 2003. 290. Print.
• Mell, Jr., Donald C. English Poetry, 1660-1800: a guide to information sources. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide Series, vol. 40. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 408-416. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Rev. Thomas Warton (1728-1790). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33111.
• Suarez, Michael F. Warton, Thomas. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands [1782]. Ed. Robert Dodsley and Michael F. Suarez. Vol. I. London: Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997. 220-221. Print. 6 volumes.

Criticism

• Fairer, David. Thomas Warton, Thomas Gray, and the Recovery of the Past. Hutchings, W. B. and William Ruddick, eds. Thomas Gray: Contemporary Essays. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1993. 146-70. Print.
• Griffin, Robert J. The Eighteenth-Century Construction of Romanticism: Thomas Warton and the Pleasures of Melancholy. ELH 59 (1992): 799-815. Print.
• Martin, L.C. Thomas Warton and the Early Poems of Milton. Proceedings of the British Academy 20 (1934): 25-43. Print.
• Pittock, Joan. The Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. Print.
• Pittock, Joan. Thomas Warton and the Oxford Chair of Poetry. English Studies 62 (1981): 14-33. Print.