Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Warton Thomas

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...	George Eliot [pseud.]	Thomas Warton	History of English Poetry, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear...	George Crabbe	Thomas Warton	History of English Poetry, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[thanking Warton for a book he has sent ] You have shewn to all, who shall hereafter attempt the study of our ancient...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Warton	Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Warton	[poems]	Print: Book