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Title: The Man of Taste
Author: James Bramston
Editor: F. P. Lock
Release Date: August 15, 2010 [EBook #33441]
Language: English
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[JAMES BRAMSTON]
THE
MAN of TASTE
(1733)
Introduction by
F. P. Lock
PUBLICATION NUMBER 171
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1975
GENERAL EDITORS
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles
ADVISORY EDITORS
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
INTRODUCTION
For what has Virro painted, built, and planted?
Only to show, how many Tastes he wanted.
What brought Sir Visto's ill got wealth to waste?
Some Daemon whisper'd, Visto! have a Taste.
(Pope, Epistle to Burlington)
The idea of taste
and the ideal of the man of taste
have fallen considerably in critical esteem since the eighteenth century. When F. R. Leavis calls Andrew Lang a scholar and a man of taste, with a feeling for language and a desire to write poetry,
[1] it is clear that for Leavis these attributes disqualify Lang from being taken seriously as a poet. But for the age of Pope, taste
was a key term in its aesthetic thinking; the meaning and application of the term was a lively issue which engaged most of the ablest minds of the period.
Addison prefaced his series of Spectator papers on the Pleasures of the Imagination
with a ground-clearing essay on taste
(No. 409). In this classic account of the term, Addison defines taste
as that Faculty of the Soul, which discerns the Beauties of an Author with Pleasure, and the Imperfections with Dislike.
Addison's taste
is an innate proclivity towards certain kinds of aesthetic experience that has been consciously cultivated in the approved