Title: Poems on Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, Batchelor of Divinity, Late Vicar of Basing stoke in Hampshire, and sometime Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. iv, [16], 228. Contemporary calf. Gilded spine on 5 bars with red panel. Red edges. Signature "IJ. Huntingford" on first pastedown. Printer's device on title page. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bound with H. Kelly, False Delicacy. A Comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. By His Majesty’s servants. By Hugh Kelly. The fourth edition. London, 1768.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition. With ten spurious additions by the editors Joseph Warton (1722-1800) and Thomas Warton the younger (1728-1790), enabling their father (ca. 1688-1745) to appear as an influence upon William Collins – rather than the reverse – and a notable ‘pre-Romantic’ innovator. The imposture was exposed by Arthur H. Scouten in “The Warton forgeries and the concept of Preromanticism in English literature,” in: Etudes anglaises, 40 (1987), 4, pp. 434-447; see also K. K. Ruthven, Faking Literature. Cambridge, 2001 p. 122, ESTC, T125430.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039120919707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>