Thomas Warton
January 09, 1728 – May 21, 1790
Place of Birth:
Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Place of Death:
Oxford, England
Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called Thomas Warton the younger to distinguish him from his father Thomas Warton the elder. His most famous poem remains The Pleasures of Melancholy, a representative work of the Graveyard poets.