Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790

found: Hist. of Eng. poetry from the twelfth ... 1871:t.p. (Thomas Warton, B.P.; Fellow of Trin. Coll., Oxford; F.S.A.; Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford)

found: Observations on the Fairy queen of Spenser, 1790:title page (by Thomas Warton)

found: Wikipedia, February 23, 2018:(Thomas Warton; Thomas Warton (9 January 1728--21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet; from 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England; he is sometimes called Thomas Warton the younger to distinguish him from his father Thomas Warton the elder; his most famous poem remains The Pleasures of Melancholy, a representative work of the Graveyard poets; he was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire and died in Oxford, England; he was the younger brother of Joseph Warton)