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Walter Harte
1709–1774
An Oxford scholar with a talent for crossing genres, this eighteenth-century writer moved from poetry and history to practical writing on farming. His career also linked him to figures such as Alexander Pope and to the academic world of Oxford and Windsor.
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An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
by Walter Harte
About the author
Born in 1709, Walter Harte was an English poet, historian, and miscellaneous writer. Reliable reference sources describe him as a friend of Alexander Pope and note his long connection with Oxford, where he studied at St Mary's Hall and later served as vice-principal.
Harte wrote in several fields rather than just one. He is remembered for poetry, historical writing, and for Essays on Husbandry, a practical work that helped give him a lasting place in eighteenth-century letters. Sources also identify him as a canon of Windsor, showing how his literary and academic life overlapped with church appointments.
He died in 1774. Although not as widely read now as some of his contemporaries, he remains an interesting example of a writer whose work ranged from literary culture to everyday concerns such as agriculture.