Thomas Warton
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1728 – 1790
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Who was Thomas Warton?
Thomas Warton 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.
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- Born
- Jan 9, 1728
Basingstoke - Also known as
- Уортон, Томас
- Siblings
- Nationality
- England
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Education
- Trinity College, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- Winchester College
- Employment
- Poet laureate, Government of the United Kingdom
(1785 - 1790)
- Poet laureate, Government of the United Kingdom
- Died
- May 21, 1790
Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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