Ars Poetica
The Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica)
Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus · 65 – 8 BCE
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A verse letter of advice to a family of would-be poets, easy in tone and full of craft: keep a work whole, suit style to subject, revise for years, mix the useful with the pleasing. It is less a theory than a working poet's table talk, and for centuries Europe's schools learned poetry from it.