Verse by Joseph Warton
Dep. c. 642
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Verse by Joseph Warton
Shelfmark
Dep. c. 642
Summary
Contains:
(fols. 1-77) arranged alphabetically by first line
(fols. 78-9) drafts of "Retirement. An Ode", with a list of the poems included in the 1748 edition of Thomas Warton's poems (see David Fairer, in "Review of English Studies", n.s.29 (1979), 61-5)
(fols. 80-1) fair copy of part of Thomas Warton the elder's "Regal Dream", with a list by Joseph of his father's poems, and draft of his "Ode to sleep" (see David Fairer "The Poems of Thomas Warton the Elder?" in "Review of English Studies" n.s.26 (1975), 287-300, 395-406)
(fols. 82-7) fragments of verse which Warton used in "The Enthusiast" (1744) (ex-inf. Christina le Prevost)
(fols. 88-100) fragments of verse;
(fols. 101-3) drafts of a prologue for Edward Young's play "The Brothers", 1753
(fols. 104-21) notes and verse by Joseph Warton, his father and his brother, including (fol. 115) verse beginning "Happy the caverned hermit", (fol. 117) Joseph's "Lines written at Montauban", and (fol. 118) an early poem by Joseph Trapp entitled "The sacrifice of Christ".
Date
1749-1979
Language
English
Physical extent
121 Leaves
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Collection contents
Papers of Joseph Warton
Correspondence and literary papers
Verse by Joseph Warton
