Two Pioneers of Romanticism: Joseph and Thomas W
The biography explores the lives and literary contributions of Joseph Warton and Thomas Warton, two influential figures of the Romantic movement in 18th-century England. The book delves into their early lives, education, and careers, highlighting their individual strengths and weaknesses as scholars, poets, and critics. It examines their relationships with prominent contemporaries, such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, and discusses their roles in shaping the literary landscape of their time.
By Edmund Gosse · First published 1889 · Genre: Biography, Literary Criticism, History · 9,317 words
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The origins of the Romantic Movement in literature have been examined so closely and so often that it might be supposed that the subject must be by this time exhausted. But no subject of any importance in literature is ever exhausted, because the products of literature grow or decay, burgeon or wither, as the generations of men apply their ever-varying organs of perception to them. I intend, with your permission, to present to you a familiar phase of the literary life of the eighteenth century from a fresh point of view, and in relation to two men whose surname warrants a peculiar emphasis of respect in the mouth of a Warton Lecturer. It is well, perhaps, to indicate exactly what it is which a lecturer proposes to himself to achieve during the brief hour in which you indulge him with your attention; it certainly makes his task the easier if he does so.
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- Work type: Essay
- Author: Edmund Gosse
- Date: 1889 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Biography, Literary Criticism, History
- Length: 9,317 words
- Structure: 1 section, 91 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Difficult (College Level)
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- Biography — The book is primarily a biographical account of the lives of Joseph and Thomas Warton.
- Literary Criticism — The book offers critical analysis of the Wartons' contributions to Romanticism.
- History — The book provides historical context for the Wartons' work and the Romantic period.
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Romanticism · Literature · Poetry · Warton Brothers · 18th Century · English Literature · Literary Criticism · Cultural History · Influence · Nature · Aesthetics · Sentiment