Editing Joseph Warton (section)

==Career==
[[File:A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight BHL20977588 (cropped).jpg|thumb|A monument to Warton by [[John Flaxman]] in [[Winchester Cathedral]]]]
In 1748, Warton followed his father into the church, becoming curate of [[Winslade]]. In 1754, he was instituted as rector at The Church of All Saints, [[Tunworth]].<ref>William Page (editor) [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56773 Tunworth] 'Parishes: Tunworth', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 174–176. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56773 Date accessed: 8 July 2010.</ref> In his early days Joseph wrote poetry, of which the most notable piece is ''The Enthusiast'' (1744), an early precursor of [[Romanticism]]. 

In 1755, he returned to his old school to teach, and from 1766 to 1793 was its headmaster, presiding over a period of bad discipline and idleness, provoking three mutinies by the boys.<ref>Partington, Wilfred (1932). Sir Walter's Post-Bag. London: John Murray, p. 120.</ref>  His career as a critic was always more illustrious, and he produced editions of classical poets such as [[Virgil]] as well as English [[poets]] including [[John Dryden]].  

Like his brother, Warton was a friend of [[Samuel Johnson]], and was part of the literary coterie centered around publisher [[Robert Dodsley]].

A monument to Joseph Warton by the neoclassical sculptor [[John Flaxman]] is in [[Winchester Cathedral]].