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Ars Poetica (Archibald MacLeish) " 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 to “art of poetry.”. MacLeish's poem, much like Horace's (which was written in the first century A.D.), can be read as a veritable guide for writing poetry.
The art of poetry "Ars Poetica", or "The Art of Poetry", is a poem written by Horace c. 19 BC, [1] ... a term coined by him to mean the use of flowery language. ...
Archibald MacLeish. Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s.
Aristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama (comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play), lyric poetry, and epic. The genres all share the function of mimesis, or imitation of life, but differ in three ways that Aristotle describes: Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter, and melody. Difference of goodness in the characters.
II.3 – Ars Poetica – The Art of Poetry – (Addressed to The Pisos) (For further discussion, see the Wikipedia article on the Ars Poetica) The Ars Poetica is dedicated to Horace's friend Lucius Calpurnius Piso (the Roman senator and consul) and his two sons. 1-23 – Unity and simplicity are necessary in a poem.
Ut pictura poesis is a Latin phrase literally meaning "as is painting so is poetry ". The statement (often repeated) occurs most famously in Horace 's Ars Poetica, near the end, immediately after another famous quotation, " bonus dormitat Homerus ", or "even Homer nods" (an indication that even the most skilled poet can compose inferior verse ...
Auden regarded the work as "my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe The Tempest to have been Shakespeare's." The poem is a series of dramatic monologues spoken by the characters in Shakespeare's play after the end of the play itself. These are rendered in a variety of verse forms from villanelles, sonnets, sestinas, and finally Jamesian prose ...
Also used by Wilfred Owen for the title of a poem regarding World War I, Dulce et Decorum Est (calling it "the old Lie"). dulce et utile: a sweet and useful thing / pleasant and profitable: Horace, Ars Poetica: poetry must be dulce et utile, i.e., both enjoyable and instructive. dulce periculum: danger is sweet: Horace, Odes, 3 25, 16.