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Horace's 'Ars Poetica' is the ultimate poem about poets. This poem leads the listener through Horace's tips on how to become a good poet. He humorously and thoughtfully covers topics such as form and structure, poetic tradition, how to behave like a poet, and how to get feedback from others.
13 Οκτ 2009 · Horace’s advice in the Ars Poetica is consistently practical and addresses a wide range of issues of craft regarding translation, emotional affect, playwriting, the dangers of publishing (“a word once sent abroad can never return”), engaging critical feedback, and the comportment of a poet.
“Ars Poetica” (“The Art of Poetry” or “On the Nature of Poetry”), sometimes known under its original title, “Epistula Ad Pisones” (“Letters to the Pisos”), is a treatise or literary essay on poetics by the Roman poet Horace, published around 18 or 19 BCE.
The allusions set apart Horace’s poem from a conventional treatise. For example, Horace writes, “Homer has instructed us in what measure the achievements of kings, and chiefs, and direful war might be written,” an allusion to stories from the Iliad and Odyssey (Lines 73-98, Paragraph 1).
Some examples of the dictums Horace includes in Ars Poetica are his assertion that per Greek tradition, traumatic events should not be performed on stage, but through narration, and that each genre of literature (epic poetry, tragedy etc.) must maintain its conventions.
Horace wrote Ars Poetica around 15 BCE as an epistle, or letter, to Lucius Calpurnius Piso and his two sons, both of whom desired to become poets. The poem is divided into 14 parts, each of which gives advice and provides illustrative examples from the classical tradition of ancient literature.
• a good introduction on the life and works of Horace • excellent introductions to twenty individual poems selected from the four books of the Odes including the six central 'Roman' Odes • detailed notes on each poem in which Mr Matier has made critical use of standard commentaries and the most recent works of scholarship
