{{Short description|English poet and historian}} {{for|his father|Walter Harte (clergyman)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Walter Harte | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1709 | birth_place = | death_date = March 1774 | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''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,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/abiographicalhi04grangoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/abiographicalhi04grangoog/page/n154 147] |first=Mark|last=Noble|authorlink=Mark Noble (biographer)|title=A biographical history of England|publisher=W. Richardson |year=1806 |accessdate=2009-07-12}}</ref> 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.
In 1750 he was appointed Canon of the third stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1774.<ref>''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.</ref>
== Works == * ''Poems on several occasions'' (1727) * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=K-bmAAAAMAAJ An essay on reason].'' ; 2nd ed. 1735 * ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29237 An essay on satire, particularly on the Duncaid]'' (1730) * ''[https://archive.org/details/essaysonhusband00hartgoog Essays on husbandry].'' (1764) * ''[https://archive.org/details/amaranthorrelig00hartgoog The amaranth; or, Religious poems]'' (1767) * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hdo_AAAAcAAJ The history of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden]'' * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gc1bAAAAQAAJ The reasonableness and advantage of national humiliations, upon the approach of war]'' (1740) * ''The union and harmony of reason, morality, and revealed religion.''
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== External links == {{Wikiquote}} * [http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00230.shtml Walter Harte] at the [http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/ Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)] * [http://wiz2.cath.vt.edu/spenser/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=33956 Extensive biography]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * {{Gutenberg author | id=Harte,+Walter }} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Walter Harte}} * {{LiteraryEncyclopedia|author=Editors|article=Walter Harte|type=people|uid=5808}} * {{OL author}}<!-- includes ''Essays on husbandry'' = Google books|DaI1AAAAMAAJ -->
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