Thomas Warton

Thomas Warton , born the January 9th 1728 with Basingstoke, in the Hampshire in England, dead the May 21st 1790, is poet, critical and historian of the literature English. Of 1785 with 1790, it was poet prize winner

Life

Thomas Warton is the son of the poet Patrick Warton the Old one (towards 1688 - 1745) and the young brother of lydia Warton (1722 - 1800), academician and critical literary. In its youth, Warton shows a real predilection for the studies has high level, which it will continue to develop all along its life. It translates one of the epigrams of the Latin poet Martial at nine years and writing the Pleasures of the melancholy ( The Pleasures off Melancholy ) to seventeen.

His/her father ensures his education. At sixteen years, it enters to the college of Winchester, before joining the Trinity College of Oxford. In 1747, it obtains its diploma with Oxford, where he becomes later an assistant. Warton is selected like Poète prize winner in 1747, then in 1748. Its function, at this station, is to write a poem for a patroness of the selected Université and to read it to him with an exact date. Warton becomes professor of Poésie to the university in 1757, station where it remains during ten years.

In 1785, he becomes professor of Histoire and Poète prize winner of Camden. It has as a friend and rival Samuel Johnson, and its Poésie is influenced little by little by the first English poets, like Geoffrey Chaucer, Michael Drayton, Edward Fairfax or Edmund Spenser.

Inter alia contributions, Warton, with his/her brother, is the first to affirm that Sir Thopas of Geoffrey Chaucer is a Parodie. In addition, it contributes to the revival of the Ballade. It is an admiror of the poetry of Thomas Gray, which Johnson makes fun in her parody Hermit hoar, in solemn concealment . Between several minor work, Warton ensures the edition of Théocrite, a selection of Latin and Greek inscriptions, the Vie of Sir Thomas Pope and that of Ralph Bathurst and a Enquête into the authenticity of the poems allotted to Thomas Rowley (but in fact of Thomas Chatterton) in 1782.

Historical poetry, Criticism and work

In 1749, Warton written Triumph of Isis ( The Triumph off Isis ), a praise in worms of Oxford and many students who had received a teaching there. Published anonymously, the Triumph of Isis refutes the Isis William Mason, a reduced published the previous year, where the author flattered Oxford meanly. In front of the success of the Triumph of Isis , Warton written Newmarket , a Satire which is prolonged by a collection of worms.

The first great university work of Warton is Observations on the Queen of the fairies of Spenser , published in 1754. However, it is more known for three volumes of the History of the English poetry ( The History off English Poetry ) published between 1774 and 1781, which treats poetry of XIe with XVIe century. Although this work was the criticism object many for its many inaccuracies, one regards it as highly important this historical work, which exerted a great influence.

Like poet, Warton is more inclined with the worms light and full with humor, the Ode S and the Sonnet S. Its sonnets allowed a revival of this form of poem, which had passed from mode. One remembers especially him for his interest for the primitivism, which was a stage towards the Romantisme.

The Sonnet S of Warton are regarded as the best share of its work. One of its last, With the river Lodon , is regarded as one of most natural.

A sonnet of Warton

“To to rivet Lodon” Ah! what has weary race my feet cuts run
Since first I trod thy banks with alders crowned,
And thought my way was all thro' fairy ground,
Beneath thy blues sky and golden delicious sun;
Where first my MUSE to lisp her notes begun!
Pensive While Memory traces back the round,
Which wire the varied interval between;
Much pleasure, more off sorrow, marks the scene.
Native Sweet stream! those ski and suns so pure
No more return, to cheer my evening road!
Yet still one joy remains, that, not obscure,
NOR useless, all my vacant days cuts flowed,
From youth' S gay dawn to manhood' S precedes mature;
NOR with the muse' S laurel unbestowed.

Various work

Pleasures of the melancholy ( The Pleasures off Melancholy ), 1745
Observations on the Queen of the fairies of Spenser ( Observations one the Faerie Queene off Spenser ), 1754
the Sausage of Oxford ( The Oxford Sausage ), 1764 (an anthology of worms and thoughts of Oxford)
Investigation into the authenticity of the poems of Rowley ( Inquiry into the Authenticity off the Rowley Poems ), 1770
History of English poetry ( History off English Poetry ), 1774-81

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