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It emphasizes that Bramston treats politics as a verbal art and uses similar contrasts and historical digressions to satirize political writing.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":74,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":76,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":78,"site_id":7},566778,1792237426,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":82},"success",[83,87,90,94,99,104,109,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":84,"show_sort_weight":85,"slug":86},"Story & 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AUGUSTAN REPRINT SoCIETY[JAMES BRAMSTON]  \nTHEART of POLITICKS  \n(1729)  \nIntroduction byWILLIAM KINSLEY  \nPUBLICATION NUMBER I77  \nWILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,Los ANGELES  \n1976  \nGENERAL EDITORS  \nWilliam E.Conway,William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryGeorge Robert Guffey,University of California,Los AngelesMaximillian E.Novak,University of California,Los AngelesDavid S.Rodes,University of California,Los Angeles  \nADVISORY EDITORS  \nJames L.Clifford,Columbia UniversityRalph Cohen,University of Virginia  \nVinton A.Dearing,University of California,Los AngelesArthur Friedman,University of ChicagoLouis A.Landa,Princeton UniversityEarl Miner,Princeton University  \nSamuel H.Monk,University of Minnesota  \nEverett T.Moore,University of California,Los Angeles  \nLawrence Clark Powell,William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryJames Sutherland,University College,London  \nH.T.Swedenberg,Jr.,University of California,Los AngelesRobert Vosper,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library  \nCORRESPONDING SECRETARY  \nBeverly J.Onley,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nThe meagre information known about James Bramston'slife has been ably summarized by F.P.Lock in his introductionto The Man of Taste(ARS 171).For our present purposes,weneed only add that Bramston seems to have been acquaintedwith Pope,who saw The Art of Politicks before it was printedand thought it \"pretty.\"1 Bramston quite likely met Popethrough John Caryll,whose Sussex estate,Lady-Holt,was inthe neighborhood of Bramston's parishes.  \nThe Art of Politicks,Bramston's first English poem,waspublished anonymously in 1729 and advertised in the MonthlyChronicle of 8 December.Several reimpressions followed,asdid another London edition,one from Edinburgh,and two fromDublin,all dated 1729,and a London edition of 1731.2 It was re-printed in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems,by SeveralHands(1748),where it was attributed to Bramston,and in JohnBell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry,Volume 5(1789),with a few notes.3 Horace Walpole's copy of Dodsley'sCollection,with a few rather uninformative manuscript notes,is now in the British Library(C.117.aa.16).  \nIt seems likely that the poem was completed in the sum-mer of 1729.The most recent events that Bramston alludes toare Thomas Woolston's trial for blasphemy of 4 March(p.27)and Sir Paul Methuen's resignation as Treasurer of the King'sHousehold,which was reported in May(p.13).4  \nHorace's Ars Poetica was one of the most fertile sourcesfor eighteenth-century imitations and adaptations.Some werecompletely serious attempts to marry one art to another or toshow that all arts share the same fundamental principles;anexample of this type is John Gwynn's Art of Architecture(1742;ARS 144).Others,like William King's Art of Cookery(1708)are downright burlesques.  \nBramston's usual method falls somewhere between theseextremes.He often uses the dignity of poetry to show up the in-dignity of politics or political writing,as on pp.5-6 whereHorace's advice on choice of subject is transformed into advice  \nto\"Weekly Writers of seditious News,\"or on page 7,where therise and fall of South Sea stock fills the place of Horace'sfamous comparison of archaic and new-coined words to theleaves of the forest.But Bramston's poem more often aspires tothe same level as its model;in this respect it resembles Ab-salom and Achitophel more than Mac Flecknoe.  \nSeveral factors help to bring Ars Poetica and The Art ofPoliticks together.Perhaps most important,Bramston con-ceives of politics primarily as a verbal art,the use of speech topersuade others to a course of action.Bribes and other crasserincentives appear in the poem,of course,but they are clearlythe result of declining standards.For Bramston,rhetoric shouldgovern politics;the House of Commons is a reincarnation of aRoman senate or 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