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WARTHE (Polish, Warta)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 337 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WARTHE (See also:Polish, Warta) , a See also:river of See also:Poland and See also:Germany, and the See also:chief affluent of the See also:Oder. It rises on the See also:north slope of the Carpathian Mountains N.W. of See also:Cracow, flows north as far as Radomsk, then See also:west, then north again past See also:Sieradz, until it reaches See also:Kola, where it again turns west, crosses the frontier into the Prussian See also:province of See also:Posen, where it takes a northerly direction past the See also:town of Posen.. Then once more bending west, it flows past See also:Schwerin and Landsberg and enters the Oder from the right at Cifstrin. Its See also:total length is 445 M. of which 215 are in Poland and 230 in See also:Prussia; it is navigable up to Konin in West Poland, a distance of 265 M. Its. See also:banks are mostly See also:low and See also:flat, its See also:lower course especially See also:running through drained and cultivated marshes. It is connected with the See also:Vistula through its tributary the See also:Netze and the See also:Bromberg See also:canal. The See also:area of its or The See also:Lover of Nature, and remember that it was printed in 1744, the See also:year of See also:Pope's See also:death. " As he is convinced," he wrote in the See also:preface (1746) to his Odes on Several Subjects, " that the See also:fashion of moralizing in See also:verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and See also:imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following odes may be looked upon as an See also:attempt to bring back See also:poetry into its right channel." He published an edition (1753) in Latin and See also:English of See also:Virgil. This contained See also:Christopher See also:Pitt's version of the Acneid, his own rendering of the Eclogues and Georgics in the heroic measure, and essays by See also:Warburton and others. See also:Warton himself appended essays on epic and didactic poetry, a See also:life of Virgil and notes. He made the acquaintance of Dr See also:Johnson, and wrote papers on See also:Shakespeare and See also:Homer in The Adventurer; and in 1757 he published the first See also:part of an See also:Essay on the See also:Genius and Writings of Pope, an essay regarded at the See also:time as revolutionary, by Johnson at least, because it put Pope in the second See also:rank to Shakespeare, See also:Spenser and See also:Milton, on the ground that moral and ethical poetry, however excellent, is an inferior See also:species. He held his own against Johnson in the See also:Literary See also:Club; and after enduring many jests about the promised second part of the essay and the delay in its See also:appearance, published it at last, retracting nothing, in 1782.

Warton's edition of Pope was published in 1797. An edition of See also:

Dryden, for which he had collected materials, was completed and published by his son in 1811. Warton was a See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's and of See also:Winchester Cathedrals, and held the livings of Upham and of Wickham, See also:Hampshire, where he died on the 23rd of See also:February 18co. See See also:Biographical See also:Memoirs of the See also:Late Rev. See also:Joseph Warton, by See also:John Wooll (vol. i., 18o6, no more published).

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