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    "Ars Poetica", or "The Art of Poetry", is a poem written by Horace c. 19 BC, in which he advises poets on the art of writing poetry and drama. The Ars...
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  • Ars Poetica may refer to: "Ars Poetica" (Horace), a c. 19 BC poem by Horace "Ars Poetica" (Archibald MacLeish), a 1926 poem by Archibald MacLeish Ars...
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    the third epistle – the Ars Poetica – is usually treated as a separate composition. As one commentator has put it: "Horace's Epistles may be said to be...
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    Carmen Sæculare of Horace (1863; rev. 1872) ——— The Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica of Horace (1869) Theodore Martin, The Odes of Horace, Translated Into...
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  • "Ars Poetica". written by Archibald MacLeish, and first published in 1926, was written as a spin on Horace's classic treatise, which can be translated...
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  • Ars poetica (Hebrew: ערס פואטיקה) is a contemporary Israeli poetry group. The name is at once a riff on Horace's Art of Poetry, and on the term ars, which...
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  • Purple prose (category Horace)
    derived from a reference by the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BC) who wrote in his Ars Poetica (lines 14–21): Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest...
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  • (Latin: "purpureus pannus") was first used by the Roman poet Horace in his Ars Poetica (c. 20 BC) to denote an irrelevant and excessively ornate passage;...
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  • sesquipedalia (singular sesquipedalis), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in Ars Poetica to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half...
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  • Arrow's paradox Arrow's theorem Arrow of time Arrow paradox Ars inveniendi Ars Poetica (Horace) Art Art and morality Art as Experience Art criticism Art...
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    Piso's achievements and independence were highly regarded. Horace dedicated his Ars Poëtica to him (cf. Carmen 2.12), and several epigrams by Antipater...
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    Satirae, Peerlkamp 1863. Carminum, Satirarum I et II, Epodon, Epistolarum, Ars poetica, etc., Long and MacLeane 1853. Satirarum Liber I & II , Desprez 1828...
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  • In medias res (category Horace)
    and satirist Horace (65–8 BC) first used the terms ab ōvō ("from the egg") and in mediās rēs ("into the middle of things") in his Ars Poetica ("Poetic Arts"...
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    his Poetics) and Horace (in his Ars Poetica) discussed the importance of appropriate style in epic, tragedy, comedy, etc. Horace says, for example:...
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  • deals with letter-writing. Among his sources are ancient authors Horace (Ars Poetica), Cicero (De Inventione), Aelius Donatus (Barbarismus) and Juvenal...
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  • urgency or an especially significant moment in the plot. In his Ars Poētica, Horace described the senarius as having "six beats" (sēnōs ictūs). However...
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    improbable things will happen. Such a device was referred to by Horace in his Ars Poetica (lines 191–2), where he instructs poets that they should never...
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    Ut pictura poesis (category Horace)
    poetry". The statement (often repeated) occurs most famously in Horace's Ars Poetica, near the end, immediately after another famous quotation, "bonus...
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    followed Horace in applying the story to literary criticism. In the case of Nicolas Boileau, he was imitating the Roman poet's Ars Poetica in an Art...
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    Odes of Horace (the greater part of which he declared spurious), and the Aeneid of Virgil. He also edited the Ars poetica and Satires of Horace, the Agricola...
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  • by Lucretius (c. 50 BC) Georgics, by Virgil (c. 30 BC) Ars Poetica by Horace (c. 18 BC) Ars Amatoria, by Ovid (1 BC) Thirukkural, by Thiruvalluvar (between...
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    tendencies are strikingly shown in his editions of the Epistles and Ars Poetica of Horace (1869), the Satires of Juvenal (1859) and in the supplementary essay...
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    Ab ovo (category Horace)
    no Trojan War. The English literary use of the phrase comes from Horace's Ars Poetica, where he describes his ideal epic poet as one who "does not begin...
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    when Dryden wrote, and how this poem contrasts with the ancient models of Horace, Virgil, and Juvenal. Dryden himself is considered a father of the modern...
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    staple of the pastoral works of poets such as Theocritus and Virgil. Horace (Ars Poetica, 17) and the commentators on Virgil, such as Servius, recognize that...
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    eighteenth-century poetry, deriving ultimately from classical forebears including Horace's Ars Poetica and Lucretius' De rerum natura. Pope contends in the poem's opening...
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  • paradox - Aristoxenus - Arius - Arius Didymus - Arnouphis - Arrian - Ars Poetica (Horace) - Asclepiades of Phlius - Asclepiades the Cynic - Asclepigenia -...
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  • satyr play. Even the Elizabethan critic Philip Sidney following Horace’s Ars Poetica pleaded for the exclusion of comic elements from a tragic drama....
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    and evidently viewed him as his model. Horace also refers to the death of Empedocles in his work Ars Poetica and admits poets the right to destroy themselves...
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    Origins of Tragedy". www.theatredatabase.com. Retrieved 2021-06-29. Horace, Ars Poetica 275-7 Diogenes Laertius, Book V, Heraclides, 92: "And Aristoxenus...
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