The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos / Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica.
by Horace
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Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus wrote his most influential critical work around the year 15 BC, towards the end of his long career as a poet. Horace’s Ars Poetica is an epistle presented as an informal letter to members of the Piso family. Originally written in dactylic hexameter, the piece is typically translated into prose.Offering a list of advice to beginning poets, Horace maintains an intimate tone while sharing many of the notions that continue to frame our approach to poetry. He urges poets to keep their audience in mind at all times, and he advises that writers “either follow tradi...
Chapters (11)
- THE ART OF POETRY AN EPISTLE TO THE PISOS.
- TRANSLATED FROM HORACE
- Q. HORATII FLACCI EPISTOLA AD PISONES.
- 292.——LET IT TO VIRTUE PROVE A GUIDE AND FRIEND.]
- 346.—LET ME NOT, PISOS, IN THE SYLVIAN SCENE, USE ABJECT TERMS ALONE, AND PHRASES MEAN]
- 466.—ON NATURE'S PATTERN TOO I'LL BID HIM LOOK, AND COPY MANNERS FROM HER LIVING BOOK.]
- 530.—POEMS AND PICTURES ARE ADJUDC'D ALIKE.]
- 535.—O THOU, MY PISO'S ELDER HOPE AND PRIDE!]
- 592.—AND ON THE SACRED TABLET GRAVE THE LAW. LEGES INCIDERE LIGNO.]
- 664.—THE MAN, IN WHOM GOOD SENSE AND HONOUR JOIN.]
- 684.—WHILE WITH HIS HEAD ERECT HE THREATS THE SKIES.]
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