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THOMAS WARTON (c. 1688-1745)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 337 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:WARTON (c. 1688-1745)  , See also:English author, See also:professor of See also:poetry at See also:Oxford, son of See also:Anthony See also:Warton, was See also:born at See also:Godalming about 1688 . He was educated at See also:Hart See also:Hall and Magdalen See also:College, Oxford . He was satirized for his incompetence as professor of poetry by See also:Nicholas See also:Amhurst in Terrae filius as " squinting Tom of Maudlin." He was See also:vicar of See also:Basingstoke, See also:Hampshire, and See also:master of the See also:grammar-school of the See also:town, where he had among his pupils See also:Gilbert See also:White, the naturalist . He received further preferments in the See also:church, and died at Basingstoke on the loth of See also:September 1745 . He published nothing during his lifetime, but after his See also:death his son See also:Joseph published some of his poetry under the See also:title of Poems on Several Occasions (1748) .

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