Walter Harte
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Walter Harte was a British
poet and historian. He was a friend of Alexander Pope
, Oxford don, canon of Windsor, and vice-principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.
His father, Reverend Walter Harte, was a fellow of Pembroke college, Oxford, prebendary of Wells, canon of Bristol, and vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, Somersetshire.
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poet and historian. He was a friend of Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
, Oxford don, canon of Windsor, and vice-principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.
His father, Reverend Walter Harte, was a fellow of Pembroke college, Oxford, prebendary of Wells, canon of Bristol, and vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, Somersetshire.
Works
- Poems on several occasions (1727)
- An essay on reason.
- An essay on satire, particularly on the Duncaid (1730)
- Essays on husbandry.
- The amaranth; or, Religious poems (1767)
- The history of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden
- The reasonableness and advantage of national humiliations, upon the approach of war
- The union and harmony of reason, morality, and revealed religion.