Horace ( 65 - 08 BC )
- The influence of Horace s Ars poetica has been vast exceeding the influence of Plato .
- In the realm of literary criticism he has conventionally been associated with the notion that " a poem is like a painting " that poetry should " teach and delight ".
- Horace insists that the " principal fountainhead of writing correctly is wisdom ".
- Hence the poet's work must be based on knowledge, not bookish knowledge but a detailed empirical knowledge derived from acute observation of actual life.
- " My instruction would be to examine that model of human life and manners as an informed copyist and to elicit from it a speech that lives."
- Horace remarks that ... a poet has matched every demand if he mingles the useful with the pleasant by charming n not less advising the reader that is a book that earns money for the publishers a book that crosses the sea n making its writer known forecast a long life for him .
- " it will be permissible to destroy what u have not published the voice once sent forth can't return "
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