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Horace: Ars Poetica or Epistle To The Pisos - a new, downloadable English translation.
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.
Horace The Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare. A new complete downloadable English translation of the Odes and other poetry translations including Lorca, Petrarch, Propertius, and Mandelshtam.
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.
Below is a series of translations of the same Horace poem, with comments on their up and down moments. They are also a lesson in the value of respecting the form of the original, which in this case is unrhymed, but metrically precise.
“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.
Horace approaches poetry from a practical standpoint—as a craft, or ars—rather than the theoretical approach of his predecessors, philosophers Aristotle and Plato. He also holds the poet in high regard, as opposed, for instance, to Plato, who distrusts mimesis and who has philosopher Socrates say in Book 10 of the Republic that he would ...
