ABSTRACT
Dr Joseph Warton (1722–1800), brother of Thomas, the Oxford literary historian and poet laureate, was headmaster of Winchester, 1766–1793. The first part of his Essay on Pope appeared in 1756, arguing that Pope’s ‘species of poetry is not the most excellent one of the art’. The second volume was delayed until 1782, when the critical climate was under change. Extracts from An Essay of the Genius and Writings of Pope, ‘The Fifth Edition, Corrected’, 1806.
