A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bramston, James

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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin
Bramston, James


[ 45 ] Bramston, James (c. 1694-1744). -- Satirist, ed. at Westminster School and Oxf., took orders and was latterly Vicar of Hastings. His poems are The Art of Politics (1729), in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste (1733), in imitation of Pope. He also parodied Phillips's Splendid Shilling in The Crooked Sixpence. His verses have some liveliness.