A

CRITICAL DISSERTATION

ON THE

NATURE AND PRINCIPLES

OF

TASTE.

BY M. M'DERMOT,

AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO THE REV. W. L. BOWLES, IN REPLY TO HIS LETTER TO
THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ. AND TO HIS TWO LETTERS TO THE RIGHT
HON. LORD BYRON, IN VINDICATION OF THEIR DEFENCE

OF THE POETICAL CHARACTER OF POPE.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET-STREET.

ΤΟ

THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq.

As an ardent admirer of that creative art which gives the most expansive scope to the refined perceptions of Taste, and the divine associations of Genius-that art in which you have so eminently excelled, and through which you have not only revived, but redeemed, the native spirit and chaste simplicity, the classic legance and impassioned enthusiasm, of a more poetic and a happier age,-permit me to acknowledge the honour which I feel conferred upon me, in being permitted to prefix your name to the following work.

MARTIN M'DERMOT.