The members of the Warton family represented in this collection are Thomas Warton (1688-1745), professor of poetry at Oxford, 1718-28; and his two sons Joseph Warton (1722-1800), critic, and Thomas Warton (1728-1790), poet, antiquary and literary scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

The Warton family papers include notebooks of Thomas Warton (1688-1745); correspondence and papers of Thomas Warton (1728-1790); correspondence and papers of Joseph Warton; family correspondence of the wife and daughter of Joseph Warton; and 18th- and 19th-century papers of other members of the Warton family.

The papers were given to Trinity College by Mrs Howard Gray Swann.

Trinity College deposited the papers in the Library in 1973.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

A full description is available in the Library.

See also Warton Papers.

Literature

Poetry

Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic

Warton | Thomas | 1688-1745 | Professor of Poetry

Warton | Thomas | 1728-1790 | Poet Antiquary Literary Scholar

Warton | family