ars poetica

American  

[ahrz poh-et-i-kuh, ahrs] / ˌɑrz poʊˈɛt ɪ kə, ˌɑrs /

noun

1. a treatise on the art of poetry or poetics.

2. (initial capital letter, italics) a poem (c20 b.c.) by Horace, setting forth his precepts for the art of poetry.

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ars poetica British  

/ ˈɑːz pəʊˈɛtɪkə /

noun

1. the art of poetry

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Example Sentences

Their “transformed choir did not much resemble / The disorderly choir of ordinary things,” Milosz complains in “A Treatise on Poetry,” his 1957 sequence, which combines personal memoir with ethical reflection to create an ars poetica.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

Over his lifetime, Levine, who died at 87 in 2015, never lost that muscle memory, his ars poetica.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2017

That’s a pretty apt ars poetica for this wry, unpretentious memoir.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2016

There’s an element of ars poetica to these lines, a suggestion that McCrae’s constant rushing forward is a form of running for elusive cover.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2016

He paid little heed to the old rhetoric and the ars poetica of classical comparison.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various