id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3855 Ars Poetica (Horace) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1836 209 68 "Ars Poetica", or "The Art of Poetry", is a poem written by Horace c. The Ars Poetica has "exercised a great influence in later ages on European literature, notably on French drama"[2] and has inspired poets and authors since it was written.[3] Although it has been well-known since the Middle Ages, it has been used in literary criticism since the Renaissance.[4] Perhaps it can even be said that the quotability of Horace's Ars Poetica is what has given it a distinguished place in literary criticism: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism says: It would be impossible to overestimate the importance of Horace's Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry) for the subsequent history of literary criticism. See: Horace: Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones (Ars Poetica), ed. Horace: Epistles Book II and Ars Poetica. ^ This summary is taken from: Horace: Satires; Epistles and Ars Poetica, translated and edited by H.R. Fairclough. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3855.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3855.txt