This continuation, discovered by the editor among the Warton papers in the Moberly Library at Winchester College, is here published with the kind permission of the Right Honorable Harold T. Baker and Sir George Henry Gates, retired and present Wardens of Winchester College, and of the Fellows of the College. The editor is indebted also to the Reverend Mr. J. d'E. Firth, Assistant Master and Chaplain; and Mr. C. E. R. Claribut and Mr. J. M. G. Blakiston, past and present Assistant Fellows' Librarians. The Richmond Area University Center contributed a generous grant-in-aid. Rodney M. Baine The University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION [1] Joseph Warton, _An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope_ (London, 1756-1782), I, 270-271. [2] John Milton, _Poems upon Several Occasions_ (London, 1785), ed. Thomas Warton, p. 331, n. [3] Nineteenth-century editions of the _History_ give the false impression that the eight sheets were prepared from manuscript material left at Thomas Warton's death, but these sheets were certainly printed before Thomas died, and probably in the early 1780's. See John Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_ (London, 1812-1816), III, 702-703. They contain no reference postdating that to Isaac Reed's revised edition of Robert Dodsley's _Collection of Old Plays_, published in 1780. [4] Thomas Warton to Richard Price, 13 October 1781, in Thomas Warton, _Poetical Works_, ed. Richard Mant (Oxford, 1802), I, lxxviii; Daniel Prince to Richard Gough, 4 August 1783, in Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, III, 702. [5] Thomas Caldecott to Bishop Percy, 21 March 1803, in Nichols, _Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century_ (London, 1817-1858), VIII, 372. [6] Joseph Warton to William Hayley, 12 March 1792, in John Wooll, _Biographical Memoirs of the late Revd. Joseph Warton_ (London, 1806), p. 404. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY: AN UNPUBLISHED CONTINUATION