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.