Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Joseph Warton
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Standard Name: Warton, Joseph
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Jane Cave | It is possible, though this is speculative, that JC
became acquainted while living at Winchester with the hymn-writer Anne Steele
(who lived not far away), with Anna Seward
and Hannah More
(who were friends of... |
Publishing | Jane Cave | |
Publishing | Anne Francis | She quoted Pindar
in Greek on the title page, and dedicated the work in a full-page inscription to John Parkhurst
of Epsom, author of a Hebrew lexicon, |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Smith | Lionel
(born next after Lucy and baptised on 11 November 1777) achieved a distinguished army career and also took after his mother in being something of a radical. In 1793, as a boy at Winchester School |
Publishing | Jane Warton | The publisher James Dodsley
paid JW
's brother Joseph
fifty pounds for two works by her: Letters Addressed to Two Young Married Ladies and Letters on Christian Life. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Warton | JW
's brothers, Joseph
(her elder by two years) and Thomas
(her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College
(a public... |
Literary responses | Jane Warton | Joseph Warton
, who wrote on the same subject in the same genre, told a friend by the way her poem was the best of the two. Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. continuous series 231 , No. 1, pp. 84-92. 85 |
Textual Production | Jane Warton | Her brother Joseph
(who had been invited to contribute by Samuel Johnson
in March) wrote to her on 26 April beg[ging] your Assistance in giving us some Pictures drawn from real Life. . .... |
Publishing | Jane Warton | Joseph Warton
reported in January that Dodsley
was grown surly peevish & avaricious to a degree—He swears he'll publish no more Novels—However, I have left the book [i.e. manuscript] with Him, & he is to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Julia Young | MJY
has added twelve more poems to the original one: odes (on Constancy and Fancy, the latter a response to Joseph Warton
's Ode to Fancy), songs, sonnets, and occasional poems (To Miss... |
Timeline
March 1748: The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were...
Writing climate item
March 1748
The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder
were published by subscription.
By March 1756: Joseph Warton published An Essay on the Writings...
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By March 1756
Joseph Warton
published An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope.
Texts
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