Horace's Ars poetica : family, friendship, and the art of living / Jennifer Ferriss-Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferriss-Hill, Jennifer L., 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horace. Ars poetica.

Horace.

Horace--Criticism and interpretation.

Ars poetica (Horace).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xli, 301 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Summary:

For two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's baffling outlier. Here, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill for the first time fully reintegrates the Ars Poetica into Horace's oeuvre, reading the poem as a coherent, complete, and exceptional literary artifact intimately linked with the larger themes pervading his work. Arguing that the poem can be interpreted as a manual on how to live masquerading as a handbook on poetry, Ferriss-Hill traces its key themes to show that they extend beyond poetry to encompass friendship, laughter, intergenerational relationships, and human endeavor. If the poem is read for how it expresses itself, moreover, it emerges as an exemplum of art in which judicious repetitions of words and ideas join disparate parts into a seamless whole that nevertheless lends itself to being remade upon every reading. Establishing the Ars Poetica as a logical evolution of Horace's work, this book promises to inspire a long overdue reconsideration of a hugely influential yet misunderstood poem.

Contents:

Reading the Ars Poetica p. 37

1 Humano p. 39

Human Nature p. 46

Living Language p. 62

Appropriateness and the Satires p. 69

Horatius senex p. 80

Callidaiunctura p. 90

2 Pisones p. 100

The Identity of the Pisones p. 100

The Pisones in the Ass Poetica p. 106

Ages and Aging, Young and Old p. 129

Horatius pater p. 138

3 Amid, risum p. 154

Risum p. 154

Amici p. 157

Laughter and Friendship p. 159

Roman Friendship and Horace as Amicus Pisonum p. 173

Horatius iudex p. 183

From Laughter to Madness p. 189

Toward the End of the Poem p. 197

4 The End of the Poem p. 200

The Art of Doing Everything p. 211

Ars Poetica, Ars Poiëtike (ποιητική) p. 221

A Conclusion: Ars Poetica, Ars Vivendi p. 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691195025

0691195021

OCLC:

1099691483

Publisher Number:

99983025663