Autograph letter signed from Edmond Malone, Queene Anne Street, East, to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1792 May 2.

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Autograph letter signed from Edmond Malone, Queene Anne Street, East, to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1792 May 2.

Requests the recipient's acceptance of the enclosed (no longer with this letter) which is an answer to a pamphlet written by Mr. Warton's antagonist, Joseph Ritson, criticizing Malone's edition of Shakespeare. Also, a note in a different hand and ink: Add rep'd to Dr. Jos. Warton.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7482712

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Warton, Joseph, 1722-1800

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Joseph Warton was an influential author and critic, a literary radical who encouraged the use of imagination and eschewed traditional verse forms in his criticism and his own writing. Warton was born in Surrey, and educated at Oxford University, where he developed an interest in poetry and imagination; he began publishing verse soon after, and literary essays on figures such as Milton, Shakespeare, and Pope. He taught at Winchester College, eventually becoming master and later headmaster, forcin...

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Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812

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