ABSTRACT
Warton (1728-90), younger brother of Joseph Warton, became Professor of Poetry and later Professor of Ancient History at Oxford. He was a poet and a historian of poetry. In his history of English poetry to the end of the Elizabethan age he gave no account of Donne, but he referred inaccurately to Donne's Satyres and to some of the early commendations of Donne's poetry (The History of English Poetry, 1774-81, iii, p. 278; iii (additional section xlvi), p. 50; iii (additional section xlviii), p. 85).
