ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Literary Taste, as a blank term and defining it as the power of making good choices. The original difference may call native sensibility, if people do not forget that it is not a static quality but multiplies itself in exercise. This temptation to expect that a sound theory will prove its worth by its applicability is, in fact, the bane of this subject. The best brief account can think of that it is susceptibility to the other possibilities. The power of choice which has called taste does not just sort ready-made poems; it operates throughout in the reader's re-creation of the poem. There is a strong temptation to think that the answers to these questions must be directly useful in judging particular cases. This extreme scepticism overlooks the third main factor which controls choices. Thus the moral of an analysis of the factors of good taste is a Biblical one.
