The Art of Politicks

“The Art of Politicks” is the first English poem by James Bramstonn and an imitation of Horace's Ars Poetica. Bramston conceives of politics primarily as a verbal art, the use of speech to persuade others to a course of action. He brilliantly used the dignity of poetry to shed light on the indignity of politics or political writing during the early 1700s.