Bizzell and Herzberg note in The Rhetorical Tradition that a figure who constantly promote the concept of belle lettres is Hugh Blair who encourages the cultivation of taste. According to him, good taste is needed to enhance moral improvement. Further, he asserts how the character of taste is incorporated as delicacy and correctness. Occupying these two will define people as intellectuals. Blair briefly elucidates that people with delicate taste are able to “see distinctions and differences where others see none” (958). Likewise, people with correct taste prove themselves the ability of always carrying a good sense standard in making judgement (958). More to this, “the cultivation of taste leads one to the higher intellectual pleasure, including
