Walter Harte

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Walter Harte
Born	1709
Died	March 1774
Residence	Oxford
Nationality	British

Walter Harte (1709–1774) was an English poet and historian. He was a friend of Alexander Pope, Oxford don, canon of Windsor, and vice-principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.

The son of the Reverend Walter Harte, a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, prebendary of Wells, canon of Bristol, and vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, Somerset,^[1] the young Harte was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and St Mary Hall, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1728 and proceeded MA in 1731.

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.

References

↑ Noble, Mark. A biographical history of England. Retrieved 2009-07-12.

External links

Extensive biography
Works by Walter Harte at Project Gutenberg
Editors. "Walter Harte". The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd.
Works by Walter Harte on Open Library at the Internet Archive

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Persondata
Name	Harte, Walter
Alternative names
Short description	poet and historian
Date of birth	1709
Place of birth
Date of death	March 1774
Place of death

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