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Notes
Acknowledged by Dodsley on 18 Jan. 1755. See Joan Pittock, 'Joseph Warton and his Second Volume of the Essay on Pope', RES, 18 (1967), 264-273, especially pp. 270-271.
See W. D. MacClintock, Joseph Warton's Essay on Pope, A History of the Five Editions (1933) pp. 40-41, and J. Kinsley, 'The Publication of Warton's "Essay on Pope"', MLR, 14 (1949), 91-93; also Pittock, loc. cit.
Joseph-Thomas Warton, 17 Nov. [1752], B.M. Add. MS. 42560 (ff.24-25). In an Advertisement to the Vergil Joseph acknowledged Johnson's 'most judicious remarks and observations scattered thro' the whole'.
Thomas Warton-Joseph, 19 Apr. 1755, John Wooll, Biographical Memoirs of the Late Revd. Joseph Warton, D.D. (1806), p. 231.
See K. Povey, 'On the Diagnosis of Half-sheet Imposition', The Library, 5th ser., 11 (1956), 268-272, esp. pp. 268-269.
Joseph-Thomas Warton, 28 Apr. 1755, B.M. Add. MS. 42560 (ff.37-38). The passage occurs at pp. 123-124 of the Essay: 'The most universal of authors seems to be Voltaire; who has written almost equally well, both in prose and verse; and whom either the tragedy of MEROPE, or the history of LOUIS XIV, would alone have immortalized'.
Thomas Warton's Observations on the Faerie Queene (1754) had grown from an annotated Spenser. See René Wellek, The Rise of English Literary History (Chapel Hill, 1941), pp. 166-167.
For the 1762 second edition Otway and Lee were removed altogether, probably in response to suggestions made by James Grainger in the Monthly Review, XIV (1756), 528-554, and XV (1756), 52-78. See Hoyt Trowbridge, 'Joseph Warton's Classification of English Poets', MLN, 51 (1936), 515-518.
Joseph-Thomas Warton, [post 9 Nov. 1755], B.M. Add. MS. 42560 (f.49). The 'note of Atyss' is on p. 312 of the Essay, a note to Eloisa to Abelard, lines 99-104, which quotes Atys' speech in Catullus, LXIII, 59-73. The 'Story' is on pp. 322-324, a note to lines 249-252 of the same poem, quoting from the Bibliothèque Universelle the tale of Thedbald, Marquis of Spoleto, who, having ordered the castration of his prisoners, was eloquently condemned by one of the deprived wives.
Robert Dodsley-Thomas Warton, 11 Mar. [1756], B.M. Add. MS. 42560 (f.50). James Fletcher senior (1710-1795) had begun his bookselling business in The Turl, Oxford, in 1730. Thomas Warton was a lifelong customer.
Joseph Warton-[James Fletcher], 7 Apr. 1759, B.M. Add. MS. 42560 (f.60), J. G. Dupré's edition of Les Chef-d'œuvres de P. Corneille had been published by Fletcher in 1746.
Her successor, Jane Hinxman, is listed as a 'Wholesale Dealer' in Thomas Mortimer's Universal Director (1763), III, 168. I owe this information on Mary Cooper to the kindness of Mr. D. F. Foxon.
'Would you wish to disturb so divine an order . . .?' (Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 1758 ed., p. 106). The quotation occurs on p. 130 of the second volume of the Essay on Pope.
Joseph-Thomas Warton, 8 Feb. 1760, B.M. Add. MS. 42560 (ff.62-63). Joseph eventually included two appendices (II, 482-495).
See James Allison, 'Joseph Warton's Reply to Dr. Johnson's Lives', JEGP, 51 (1952), 186-191. Edmund Cartwright considered its publication had been prompted by Johnson's 'Life' (loc. cit., p. 266). The appearance in the second half of the volume of press-figures ranging from 1 to 10 suggests that this part was printed at London and not Oxford: only the Clarendon Press is known to have had so many presses, and there is no record of the Essay's being printed there.
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