The Art of Poetry (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Horace
- First Published: 17
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Drama or dramatists, Dramatic criticism, Greek or Roman times, Literary criticism
Critical Evaluation:
To Horace, this poem was the last of his epistles, but almost at once his contemporaries began referring to it as The Art of Poetry, and by “poetry” they meant any field of literary composition. Horace addressed it to his friend Lucius Calpurnius Piso, famous for his battles in Thrace, and to his two sons. Apparently the older son yearned for a career as a dramatist or an epic poet. While not a formal treatise or an abstract discussion, like the similarly named composition of Aristotle, the 476 lines of this unsystematic letter in verse...
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