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Joshua Reynolds was knighted in 1769, two years after this work waspublished.
The Augustan Reprint Society
THOMAS MORRISON
A PINDARICK ODE ON PAINTING
Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq.
(1767)
With a preface by
Frederick W. Hilles
and a biographical introduction by
J. T. Kirkwood
Publication Number 37
Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1952
GENERAL EDITORS
H. Richard Archer, Clark MemorialLibrary
Richard C. Boys, University ofMichigan
Ralph Cohen, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles
Vinton A. Dearing, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITOR
W. Earl Britton, University ofMichigan
ADVISORY EDITORS
Emmett L. Avery, State College ofWashington
Benjamin Boyce, DukeUniversity
Louis Bredvold, University ofMichigan
John Butt, King’s College,University of Durham
James L. Clifford, ColumbiaUniversity
Arthur Friedman, University ofChicago
Edward Niles Hooker, Universityof California, Los Angeles
Louis A. Landa, PrincetonUniversity
Samuel H. Monk, University ofMinnesota
Earnest Mossner, University ofTexas
James Sutherland, UniversityCollege, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., Universityof California, Los Angeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, Clark MemorialLibrary
PREFACE
The poem here reprinted has remained unread and, with a singleexception, apparently unnoticed from the day it was published until thepresent. It is printed from a copy which I acquired many years ago at aLondon bookstore and which for a while I thought unique. I did notfind it listed in the catalogues of the chief libraries of England orAmerica, nor in the various books on anonymous publications. I havefound no mention of it in the newspapers and magazines of the time, nomention of it in contemporary letters