horace ars poetica


A good and sensible man will censure spiritless verses, he will condemn the rugged, on the incorrect he will draw across a black stroke with his pen; he will lop off ambitious [and redundant] ornaments; he will make him throw light on the parts that are not perspicuous; he will arraign what is expressed ambiguously; he will mark what should be altered; [in short,] he will be an Aristarchus: he will not say, “Why should I give my friend offense about mere trifles?” These trifles will lead into mischiefs of serious consequence, when once made an object of ridicule, and used in a sinister manner. If you’re staging something untried, and dare, To attempt fresh characters, keep them as first.
dicam, Siculique poetaenarrabo interitum.

Our poets have left no species [of the art] unattempted; nor have those of them merited the least honor, who dared to forsake the footsteps of the Greeks, and celebrate domestic facts; whether they have instructed us in tragedy, or comedy. But this [kind of measure] rarely makes its appearance in the notable trimeters of Accius, and brands the verse of Ennius brought upon the stage with a clumsy weight of spondees, with the imputation of being too precipitate and careless, or disgracefully accuses him of ignorance in his art.

Slow in making provision, lavish with money. If as poet you have to represent the renowned Achilles; let him be indefatigable, wrathful, inexorable, courageous, let him deny that laws were made for him, let him arrogate every thing to force of arms. Ne forte senilesmandentur iuueni partes pueroque uiriles;semper in adiunctis aeuoque morabitur aptis. Yet so deceptive, in blending fact with fiction. Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.Rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae,               310uerbaque prouisam rem non inuita sequentur.Qui didicit, patriae quid debeat et quid amicis,quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes,quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quaepartes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto               315reddere personae scit conuenientia cuique.Respicere exemplar uitae morumque iubebodoctum imitatorem et uiuas hinc ducere uoces. The Ramnes, the young knights, reject dry poetry: Who can blend usefulness and sweetness wins every. Bravely done!

. Yet Comedy may sometimes elevate its voice. To battle in war: oracles were uttered in song, The right way of living was shown, and royal favour. Hae nugae seria ducentin mala derisum semel exceptumque sinistre. Added interest and movement to an ancient art: The range of the lyre, once so grave, was extended.

Deletion: ‘return the ill-made verse to the anvil’. How can I be called a poet if I ignore, or fail to observe. Post hos insignis HomerusTyrtaeusque mares animos in Martia bellauersibus exacuit, dictae per carmina sortes,et uitae monstrata uia est et gratia regumPieriis temptata modis ludusque repertus               405et longorum operum finis: ne forte pudorisit tibi Musa lyrae sollers et cantor Apollo. "Pictoribus atque poetisquidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas." That spring from the Greek fount, and are sparingly used.

Than verses without content, melodious nonsense.

It has been made a question, whether good poetry be derived from nature or from art. You, whether you have made, or intend to make, a present to any one, do not bring him full of joy directly to your finished verses: for then he will cry out.

And because in all he does he’s cold and timid. Yes, He’s mad: like a bear, that’s broken the bars of its cage. We’re destined for death, we and ours: no matter if. After him Aeschylus, the inventor of the vizard mask and decent robe, laid the stage over with boards of a tolerable size, and taught to speak in lofty tone, and strut in the buskin.

Neither let a god interfere, unless a difficulty worthy a god’s unraveling should happen; nor let a fourth person be officious to speak. You’ll win private rights to public themes, if you.

This, the longest of Horace’s poems, is found in nearly all mss. The trumpet, but simple and slender with few stops, Was used to lead and support the Chorus, and to fill. Weren’t deterred by revision’s time and effort. While Horace writes of the importance of delighting and instructing audiences, modernist ars poetica poets argue that poems should be written for their own sake, as art for the sake of art.

The work is an urbane, unsystematic amplification of Aristotle ’s discussion of the decorum or internal propriety of each literary genre, which at Horace’s time included lyric, pastoral, satire, elegy, and epigram, as well as Aristotle’s epic, tragedy, and … The winding stream hastening through lovely fields. You call for a bass and quite often a treble replies: The arrow won’t always strike the mark it’s aimed at.

AP:408-437 Nature plus training: but see through, AP:438-476 Know your faults and keep your wits, AP:408-437 Nature plus training: but see through flattery. Most poets (dear sir, and you sons worthy of your sire), Are beguiled by accepted form. When Cato’s and Ennius’ speech revealed new terms, Enriched our mother-tongue,?

Events are either acted on stage, or reported. The Socratic papers will direct you in the choice of your subjects; and words will spontaneously accompany the subject, when it is well conceived.

(b) Dramatic poetry calls for special care—as to character drawing, propriety of representation, length of a play, number of actors, use of the chorus and its music, special features for the satyric type, verseforms, and employment of Greek models (11. — Eu!Rem poteris seruare tuam.

If you ever read Quintilius anything, he’d say: ‘Oh do change this, and this.’ If, after two or three, Vain attempts, you could do no better, he’d order.

Weighty openings and grand declarations often, Have one or two purple patches tacked on, that gleam. An honest, sensible man will condemn lifeless verse, Fault the harsh, smear the inelegant with a black. As the human countenance smiles on those that smile, so does it sympathize with those that weep. Sometimes a play, that is showy with common-places, and where the manners are well marked, though of no elegance, without force or art, gives the people much higher delight and more effectually commands their attention, than verse void of matter, and tuneful trifles. From which shame, or the work’s logic, denies escape.

What the buyer of roasted nuts and chickpeas approves. If a painter should wish to unite a horse’s neck to a human head, and spread a variety of plumage over limbs [of different animals] taken from every part [of nature], so that what is a beautiful woman in the upper part terminates unsightly in an ugly fish below; could you, my friends, refrain from laughter, were you admitted to such a sight. The work is an urbane, unsystematic amplification of Aristotle’s discussion of the decorum or internal propriety of each literary genre, which at Horace’s time included lyric, pastoral, satire, elegy, and epigram, as well as Aristotle’s epic, tragedy, and comedy. “Poets and painters [you will say] have ever had equal authority for attempting any thing.” We are conscious of this, and this privilege we demand and allow in turn but not to such a degree, that the tame should associate with the savage; nor that serpents should be coupled with birds, lambs with tigers.

The transitions from one subject to another seem to occur abruptly, and the subjects are arranged quite haphazardly. Oracles were delivered in poetry, and the economy of life pointed out, and the favor of sovereign princes was solicited by Pierian strains, games were instituted, and a [cheerful] period put to the tedious labors of the day; [this I remind you of,] lest haply you should be ashamed of the lyric muse, and Apollo the god of song. Breuis esse laboro,               25obscurus fio; sectantem leuia neruideficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae;qui uariare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,delphinum siluis adpingit, fluctibus aprum.

Though no one composes better poetry: it’s really. . He intends not smoke from flame, but light from smoke.

365     O maior iuuenum, quamuis et uoce paternafingeris ad rectum et per te sapis, hoc tibi dictumtolle memor, certis medium et tolerabile rebusrecte concedi; consultus iuris et actorcausarum mediocris abest uirtute diserti               370Messallae nec scit quantum Cascellius Aulus,sed tamen in pretio est; mediocribus esse poetisnon homines, non di, non concessere columnae.Vt gratas inter mensas symphonia discorset crassum unguentum et Sardo cum melle papauer               375offendunt, poterat duci quia cena sine istis,sic animis natum inuentumque poema iuuandis,si paulum summo decessit, uergit ad imum.Ludere qui nescit, campestribus abstinet armis,indoctusque pilae disciue trochiue quiescit,               380ne spissae risum tollant impune coronae;qui nescit, uersus tamen audet fingere. Hence it’s said that he tamed tigers and raging lions. To have good sense, is the first principle and fountain of writing well.

Sit ius liceatque perire poetis;inuitum qui seruat, idem facit occidenti.Nec semel hoc fecit nec, si retractus erit, iamfiet homo et ponet famosae mortis amorem.Nec satis apparet cur uersus factitet, utrum               470minxerit in patrios cineres, an triste bidentalmouerit incestus; certe furit, ac uelut ursus,obiectos caueae ualuit si frangere clatros,indoctum doctumque fugat recitator acerbus;quem uero arripuit, tenet occiditque legendo,               475non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo.
Let the chorus sustain the part and manly character of an actor: nor let them sing any thing between the acts which is not conducive to, and fitly coherent with, the main design.

(c) Les qualifications d'un poète comprennent le bon sens, la connaissance du caractère, l'adhésion à des idéaux élevés, la combinaison du dulce avec l' utile, la supériorité intellectuelle, l'appréciation de la noble histoire et la haute mission de la poésie, et surtout une volonté d'écouter et profiter d'une critique impartiale (ll. One exiled, one a beggar, lament in common prose. Full of sorrow, threats fit the face full of anger. Not worth it.

Impious Atreus mustn’t openly cook human flesh. Jests suit the playful, serious speech the solemn.

That the parts [therefore] belonging to age may not be given to youth, and those of a man to a boy, we must dwell upon those qualities which are joined and adapted to each person’s age. 153–294). Aut agitur res in scaenis aut acta refertur.Segnius inritant animos demissa per aurem               180quam quae sunt oculis subiecta fidelibus et quaeipse sibi tradit spectator; non tamen intusdigna geri promes in scaenam multaque tollesex oculis, quae mox narret facundia praesens.Ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet,               185aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus,aut in auem Procne uertatur, Cadmus in anguem.Quodcumque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi. Never heard: licence will be given you if wisely used: Indeed, new-minted words will gain acceptance.

Should I run wild then, and write freely?

Or beards, haunting secluded spots, shunning the baths. When an angry Chremes storms in swelling phrase: And often in tragedy, Peleus and Telephus.

Whatever you show to me in this manner, not able to give credit to, I detest.

Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus is best known for his satires, epistles, and odes. Yet where there are many beauties in a poem. The Muse granted the lyre tales of gods, and their sons. Wary of doing what they may soon labour to change. Following these, Homer was renowned, And Tyrtaeus whose verses inspired men’s hearts. Or, scorning the ground, grasping at air and clouds. Fierce, above the law, never downing weapons. Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus is best known for his satires, epistles, and odes.

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