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29 kwi 2017 · Horace insists that literature serves the didactic purpose which had been Plato’s main concern, and that it provides pleasure; the two goals are not incompatible, as Plato had feared. Poetry is a useful teaching tool, Horace argues, precisely because it is pleasurable.
It would be impossible to overestimate the importance of Horace's Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry) for the subsequent history of literary criticism. Since its composition in the first century BCE, this epigrammatic and sometimes enigmatic critical poem has exerted an almost continual influence over poets and literary critics alike – perhaps ...
15 sie 2024 · Who is the sensible man according to Horace's Ars Poetica? What are Horace's views on the different functions of poetry? How did Horace influence the Romantic poets?
The mood in Horace's Odes Who is the sensible man according to Horace's Ars Poetica? How did Horace influence the Romantic poets?
28 mar 2008 · Horace's Epistula ad Pisones, known usually as the Ars poética, remained a dynamic presence in the literary criticism of the Renaissance and seventeenth century, though it had been familiar since the Middle Ages.
Horace's poetry is known for its wit, and his Ars Poetica became a style manual for poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was required reading in British schools.
28 mar 2008 · As far as poetics was concerned, by far the most influential, as well as the most comprehensive, prototype was the Ars poetica of Horace, in which the humanists had an authoritative text on poetic composition to set beside the old and the newly discovered rhetorical treatises of Cicero.
