Horace, Ars Poetica

Leon Golden (Florida State University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.2: Ancient Roman Writing and Culture (Republic and Empire), -750-476.
Vol. editors: William John Dominik (University of Otago), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Thomas Habinek (University of Southern California), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Jula Wildberger (American University of Paris)

Dates

First circulation or publication c. -18

Places

Ancient Rome (Republic & Empire) (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Epistolary
Poetry (any)

Resources

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Horace’s

Ars Poetica

(designated as

hereafter) is a multifaceted verse-epistle that has had a conscious or unconscious influence on a variety of important literary critics and poets almost continuously from the ending of the first century B.C.E. through the 20th century. The greatest of the classical literary critics, Aristotle and Horace, have survived many changes of fashion and orientation in literary criticism and theory to stand, sometimes in alien landscapes, as beacons of enlightenment regarding the essential nature and ultimate goals of poetry. Because of the impressive role the

has played for so long a period in the history of literary criticism there is every reason to expect that it will continue to exert its influence in the centuries to come as it tenaciously holds…

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Citation: Golden, Leon. "Ars Poetica". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 April 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13377, accessed 07 May 2024.]

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