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JOSEPH WARTON (1722-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:WARTON (1722-1800)  , See also:English critic and poet, eldest son of See also:Thomas See also:Warton (see below), was baptized at See also:Duns-See also:fold, See also:Surrey, on the 22nd of See also:April 1722, and entered See also:Winchester school on the See also:foundation in 1735 . See also:William See also:Collins was already there, and the two formed a friendship which was maintained through their See also:Oxford career . They read See also:Milton and See also:Spenser together, and wrote verses, which, published in the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, attracted the See also:attention of Dr See also:Johnson . Warton went to See also:Oriel See also:College, Oxford, in 1740, and took his B.A. degree in 1744 . He took See also:holy orders, and during his See also:father's lifetime acted as his See also:curate at See also:Basingstoke . He then went to See also:Chelsea, See also:London; but eventually returned to Basingstoke . He married, became See also:rector of Winslade (1748), of See also:Tun See also:worth (1754); in 1755 he was appointed a See also:master in Winchester school, and headmaster in 1766 .. He was not a successful schoolmaster, and when the boys mutinied against him for the third See also:time he wisely resigned his position (1793) . His leisure was devoted to literature . Warton was far from having the See also:genius of Collins, but they were at one in their impatience under the prevailing See also:taste for moral and ethical See also:poetry . Whoever wishes to understand how See also:early the reaction against See also:Pope's See also:style began should read Warton's The Enthusiast, the See also:period; but its See also:present magnificence it owes to the See also:grand-See also:duke See also:Charles See also:Alexander of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar, with whom at certain seasons of the See also:year it was a favourite See also:residence . The most interesting See also:part of the See also:castle is the Romanesque Landgrafenhaus .

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chapel, contains two magnificent halls known as the Sdngersaal (See also:hall of the minstrels)—in which See also:Wagner See also:lays one See also:act of his See also:opera and the Festsaal (festival hall) . The Slingersaal is decorated with a See also:fine See also:fresco, representing the minstrels' contest, by See also:Moritz von See also:Schwind, who also executed the frescoes in other parts of the See also:building illustrating the legends of St See also:Elizabeth and of the See also:founding of the castle by See also:Louis the See also:Springer . The Festsaal has frescoes illustrating the triumphs of See also:Christianity, by Welter . In the buildings of the See also:outer See also:court of the castle is the See also:room once occupied by See also:Luther, containing a much mutilated four-See also:post See also:bed and other See also:relics of the reformer . The famous blot caused by Luther's hurling his See also:ink-pot at the See also:devil has See also:long since become a See also:mere hole in the See also:wall, owing— it is said—to the See also:passion of See also:American tourists for " souvenirs." The armoury (Rustkammer) contains a fine collection of See also:armour, including suits formerly belonging to See also:Henry II. of See also:France, the elector See also:Frederick the See also:Wise and Pope See also:Julius II . The See also:great See also:watch-See also:tower of the castle commands a magnificent view of the Thuringian See also:forest on the one See also:side and the See also:plain on the other .

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