CLOSING the Adventurer, March 4th, 1754, Hawkesworth wrote that “the pieces signed Z are by the Rev. Mr. Warton, whose translations of Virgil’s ‘Pastorals’ and ‘Georgics’ would alone sufficiently distinguish him as a genius and a scholar.” The translations thus praised are forgotten, but “the pieces signed Z” will keep Warton’s name alive as long as essays in the style of Addison and Steele are valued. He was born in Surrey, England, in 1722. At Winchester School and at Oxford he was intimate with Collins, under whose influence he published verses which attracted the attention of Dr. Johnson. After beginning to write for the Adventurer, he had the hardihood to dissent from the “Great Cham,” and to hold his own against him in an argument on the merits of Pope, Milton, and Shakespeare. The latter years of his life were spent in preparing editions of Pope (1797) and Dryden. He died in London in February, 1800, and his edition of Dryden, completed by his son, was published in 1811.