James Bramston

James Bramston was an English poet and clergyman, born around 1694 and dying in 1744. He was educated at Westminster School and at Oxford, and later took holy orders.

He is chiefly known for satirical verse, especially The Art of Politics (1729) and The Man of Taste (1733). Those poems, written in the spirit of Horace and Pope, made his name as a sharp observer of public life and fashionable manners.

Although he is far less widely read now than some of his contemporaries, his work offers a lively glimpse of Augustan literary culture and the taste for polished, witty social satire in early 18th-century England.