Warton's

So, although Hoccleve's poem was not printed till after Wordsworth's death, the coincidences seem great enough to suggest that Wordsworth had seen one of the manuscripts, possibly that in his own college of St John's, Cambridge, attracted perhaps by reading in Warton's History of English Poetry about the portrait of Chaucer, and moved by the theme he puts in his poem of 'Mighty poets in their misery dead'.

Stephen Medcalf (ed), The Later Middle Ages (London, 1981) Miglior acque 2008

So, although Hoccleve's poem was not printed till after Wordsworth's death, the coincidences seem great enough to suggest that Wordsworth had seen one of the manuscripts, possibly that in his own college of St John's, Cambridge, attracted perhaps by reading in Warton's History of English Poetry about the portrait of Chaucer, and moved by the theme he puts in his poem of 'Mighty poets in their misery dead'.

Archive 2008-06-01 Miglior acque 2008

Warton's writings and those of several of his contem - poraries a contrast is implied between this “romantic” literature, both medieval and Renaissance, and the whole tradition of literary art as it came down from classical antiquity.

ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

In 1766 Heinrich Wilhelm Gerstenberg reviewed Warton's Observations on the Fairy Queen, and Herder used the learning, information, and termi - nology of Warton and his English contemporaries.

ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

Warton's except that its scope has been expanded more and more: not only medieval literature and Ariosto and

ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

Warton's usage of the term was apparently rare in France, though it occurs in Chateaubriand's

ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

Warton's inferences from the fact, and proved that it was to the servants, or _eorum homines_, that Charlemagne granted this uncanonical privilege, p. 216.

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

Warton's _History of English Poetry_ published in that year.

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball

Though so immeasurably inferior to his own, Johnson may have noticed these verses of Warton's with some little attention, and unfortunately borrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem.

Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 Various

[384] _Warton's Anglia Sacra_, it is related that William Longchamp, bishop in 1199, sold them to raise money towards the redemption of

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather