SOURCE: Pittock, Joan. “The Taste for the Gothic: Thomas Warton and the History of English Poetry.” In The Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton, pp. 176-214. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.
In the following essay, Pittock traces influences on “Gothic” poems by Warton and others and critiques his History of English Poetry.
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