Horace's Ars Poetica
A major reinterpretation of Horace''s famous literary manual
For two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet''s baffling outlier. Here, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill for the ...
A major reinterpretation of Horace''s famous literary manual
For two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet''s baffling outlier. Here, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill for the ...
