NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

1. _New Bearings in English Poetry_ (1932; new ed., London: Chatto &
Windus, 1950), p. 11.

2. Treatise IV: "An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit," Book I, Part
ii, Section 3, in _Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times_
(London, 1711), II, 28-29.

3. Reprinted in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1 (1731), 55-56.

4. These attacks are described in J. V. Guerinot, _Pamphlet Attacks on
Alexander Pope_ 1711-1744 (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1969), pp.
204-21.

5. _Literary Criticism of William Wordsworth_, ed. Paul M. Zall
(Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1966), p. 50.

6. I owe these details (which correct the _DNB_ account) to Mr. Michael
Hunter of Worcester College, Oxford.

7. In his edition of Pope's _Works_ (London, 1797), V, 285 (note on
_The Dunciad_, IV, 570).

8. _Gentleman's Magazine_, I (1731), 55-56.

A Note on the Text

_The Man of Taste_ was published on 8 March 1733 by Lawton Gilliver
in a handsome folio format. A second folio edition (although not so
called) was published later in the same month; this was followed within
the year by octavo editions in London[1] and Dublin.

Using the evidence of advertisements in the two folios and contemporary
newspapers, W. B. Todd argues for the priority of the edition he calls
"A,"[2] reversing the order previously suggested by Iolo A. Williams on
internal evidence.[3] The textual variants are slight and are confined
to accidentals, except that on p. 5, line 9, "A" reads "Strife still
persists" and "B" has "Strife still subsists." A copy of Todd's edition
"A" is reproduced here.

[1] Although the imprint on the title page reads "London," this
edition was probably printed in Edinburgh. For a reassessment of
the number and order of editions of _The Man of Taste_, see
D. F. Foxon, _English Verse_ 1701-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press, forthcoming 1975), I, 78 (B396-401).

[2] _The Library_, 5th series, VIII (1953), 186-87. Todd here
summarizes the evidence about publication.

[3] _Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse_ (London: Constable,
1934), pp. 67-69.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The facsimile of Bramston's _The Man of Taste_ (1733) is reproduced by
permission from a copy (Shelf Mark: *fPR3627/E663b/copy 2) in the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The total type-page (p. 7)
measures 243 x 144 mm.

THE MAN of TASTE.