Thomas Warton - A History of English Poetry - an Unpublished Continuation

Thomas Warton to Richard Price, 13 October 1781, in Thomas Warton, Poetical Works , ed. Richard Mant (Oxford, 1802), I, lxxviii; Daniel Prince to Richard Gough, 4 August 1783, in Nichols, Literary Anecdotes , III, 702.

Thomas Caldecott to Bishop Percy, 21 March 1803, in Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1817-1858), VIII, 372.

Joseph Warton to William Hayley, 12 March 1792, in John Wooll, Biographical Memoirs of the late Revd. Joseph Warton (London, 1806), p. 404.

[Thomas Warton's original version began "The temporary vogue which …" The final version, here parenthesized in the text, represents, it seems fairly certain, Joseph Warton's expansion. Although this deprecatory comment seems rather abrupt coming after five sections devoted to the Elizabethan satirists, Joseph Warton is not disparaging where his brother praised. Thomas Warton had already (IV, 69) belittled the "innumerable crop of satirists , and of a set of writers differing but little more than in name, and now properly belonging to the same species, Epigrammatists ."]

[Warton here combined several remarks in Dryden's essay "The Original and Progress of Satire." See John Dryden, Essays , ed. W. P. Ker (Oxford, 1900), II, 111-112. There were six, not four editions of Holiday's Persius .]

[Warton refers presumably to Isaac Reed's Collection of Old Plays (London, 1780).]

[Jehan de] Nostredam [e]. [Les] Vies des […] Poet[es] Provens[aux]. [Lyon, 1575] n. 59. pag. 199.

[William Hayley. An] Ess[ay] on Epic Poetry . [London, 1782] Notes, Ess. iii. v. 81. p. 171.