Warton, Joseph

1722 - 1800

English poet, brother to fellow Graveyard School poet Thomas Warton, clergyman, editor of the works of Alexander Pope, Warton is often identified as a Romantic precursor, due largely to his descriptions of nature in works such as The Enthusiast; or, The Lover of Nature. Several of his other works, a few of which are linked below, have descriptions of nature or mood which brings them within the verge of the graveyard.

Sites:
Brief biographical note
Part of the "Pleasures of Melancholy" hypertext site. [Lisa Pinto; Richard Stockton College]
Brief biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Brief biographical note
[1911 Encyclopedia Britannica]
Brief biographical note a LitGothic etext
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Brief biographical overview
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; Bartleby.com]


Etexts:
"Ode on the Death of ——" (3K)  a LitGothic etext
"Ode to Evening" (3K)  a LitGothic etext
"Ode to Fancy" [U Toronto]

"Joseph Warton."