Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
English scholar and poet; author of The Pleasures of Melancholy
(1747), Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser (1754), The History of English Poetry, 3 vols (1774-78). He succeeded
William Whitehead as poet laureate in 1785.
English scholar and poet; author of The Pleasures of Melancholy
(1747), Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser (1754), The History of English Poetry, 3 vols (1774-78). He succeeded
William Whitehead as poet laureate in 1785.