The Augustan Reprint Society
A
POEM
In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry
(Anonymous)
(1742)
Introduction by
William A. Gibson
PUBLICATION NUMBER 144
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1970
GENERAL EDITORS
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles
ADVISORY EDITORS
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Roberta Medford, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
John Gwynn, generally accepted as the author of The Art ofArchitecture (1742), is best known to students of English literatureas one of the founders of the Royal Academy and as a friend of SamuelJohnson, who undertook in 1759 to win the Blackfriars Bridge commissionfor Gwynn with a series of three letters in the Daily Gazeteer1.To architectural historians Gwynn is best known as the architect whoseproposals for regularizing the street plans of London and Westminster(in London and Westminster Improved, 1766) were prophetic both of theplan which eventually emerged from the land speculation and buildingboom of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and of the prominencesubsequently given to city-planning.2...