ars poetica
Americannoun
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a treatise on the art of poetry or poetics.
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(initial capital letter, italics) a poem (c20 b.c.) by Horace, setting forth his precepts for the art of poetry.
noun
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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
This is an ars poetica, of course, coming from a writer who appreciates the interdependency of fact and fiction.
From Slate • Nov. 30, 2016
That’s a pretty apt ars poetica for this wry, unpretentious memoir.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2016
The treatise of Horace is not in Aristotle's sense a poetic; it is an ars poetica.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
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