DE ARTE POETICA* amano capit cersoem plea equinn sunre yells et vor lndacere pas te ealate metab, wt furpter ates sina in picea sae formosa soperney Seton admit oom tenest amici? 8 ‘te, Pisones ist tabula fre ibrom peril, a, et ea om nae Fpgenturt spe, ut nea pes nee pat an relic foman evra ost, tibet? aden semper fst aqua potestas. see ct ane, ven potimiaque dame vice sed on ia inant tom SSipentesaibus geminentar tigebas sgn. "Poeps gravis ploramgue et magna profess prportus Ite qui sponds, onuk et ater [ir panna, cum news ear Dinas sens aque per atocns ames agro SPREE hcl ont plot desert res. ‘Eline on ert his oc. et fortasecuprestn SG dimtare: quid oe, oats enatatexsper™ 2 * aio Pts ff a aM, HE EE ony. ee ah 1 Reh ype or ba Pina 2 in 1 per «0 | | | THE ART OF POETRY Ir a painter chose to join « human head to the neck ofa horse, and to spread feathers of many alue vet Limbs picked up now bere now there, o that whet st the top i a lovely woman ends below ina black and ‘ply fh, could you, my frends, if Favoured with irate view, rele ffem laughing? Bclieve me, lear Pises, gute like such platures would en book, ‘whose ide fances shall be shaped Tike s sick man's Areams, co that neither head not foot ean be assgned toa aingle shape, " Painters and poets," youreay, pave always had an equal sight in haaard-ng any thing.” We know it this Hence we poets saga snd in our tum we grant the likes but not so far that savage should imate with tame, or sespeats ‘couple with birds, Ine with tigers ‘Works with noble beginnings ad grand promises often have one or two purple pateuos so stitched on ' to glitter far and wide, when Disns's grove and thar, and ‘The winding stream speeding‘ fale es ‘ete river Rhine or the rainbow ie being desribed. Fo such things there ta plac, but not just nov, Perhaps, too, you can draw'a eypress. ub wht of fhat Ifyou are paid to pat a Salo swimming from + Mheieecamples are double take from poe creat Horses ay aHORACE ‘THE ART OF POETRY, 2-0 ere dato qui pingtar? amphoracopit | his wresked vessel In despa? # That was « vine asta, ner dato qui pingtar? amp jar, when the moulding began : why, ay the wheel Ins: cuene ceamum, | oat ae ua te Me enique al quod ve! empl dan ‘the work what you wil, let it at least be simple ‘Maxime pars vatum, pater etiuvenespatre digas, | {He Work what you st be sip tnd edpimar sper revs eae abr, | ay soe, 0 father and ye wm wry aesinas a or ae ict Bat O thr a econ warty icine einige profes pana trgts fret Sev ibe pane Pee ie hurd tutus nium tmidasque procelae Almiog at smoothness I fll in force and fie. One a eager con, promis grandeur boatante® eakee ole, 2 spores I. wl * ne a5" gape oe Grek mons” amioras share frre toe former were Bete wf gin aad nth ters famner Tese, fares mi apie tthe re cates af pet THE ART OF POETRY, 01-290 fenton we hope pe to 1 fashioned, worthy ta be ereared with Cedar, aa kept in poled eyprees? Se Poets aim citer fo nef, oto amuse or to aster words at once bot plssing sod ela fe Whesoree, yu lst, ont what uy said the mad may rently grap a uch ily Hold: every word ia exces fa ay fms fhe fill mind. Hetons mean to please should be close to the real that your play iusto ak or belief in anything ieehoasen nor om the Opes’ * bol, afer dianer, drew forth 0 Uvog es The centuries of te cide share fom Ge sage what ie" profitess the proud Ramis’ dain poets? devoid of cims. He has wom every vote who bas blended pro and plessurey atone lg and instacting the reefer, Wat is the book to one tmoney for the Soul; thi the one to coms the and extend ow distant day fs anton’ fame Yet fella there ove which we. cay gladly pardon for te sting does not ana yield the nd which hand’ and bear intend, Wat then you fall fre lat often sctorns you e hagp?) nor wil the bow always hit whatever mask 1 testes, ‘Bat whan the Brauticoins oem are mre inane, shall ot take offence at afew at wich werees land fas let ‘dop, or human fealty hat fled to ert "What, thesis the eth?” Ax a copying Alok ie without exese i, however mar named, he atways makes tho same mistake, and harper Inghed et who always blunders on the time ring formed by Romalus, so that" Ramnes” bs hee wed for he yound arson ore Soir amour books of Epi 50.9 ooHORACE sim qut melt cesta, 6 Cher Me, ‘frm bo tere oman un sou aur’ et em {Migecrqnmioqac beans drmitat Hover rum op ngo facet cbrepere sana” 990 ‘epi pee gun po Hoctnat olcura sole ice af cede, {lc eat unt ne omat acne ‘hae placult semel, hace deciens repatita placebit, 268 nr avnuny gam oie yen Sager deca chp spi ae kom tolls memor, cortis medium ef teerailerebus fectetono consis ass eater Seenum medocsy abet vite duet 0 SietalzeMeesuts guantans Clselis Ales, 2eitames poo at: medowsbus ee oc Soule ton Sn sper luni Srpatar terete snp dco re ‘t crawun ungueatum et Sardo eum mellepapaver Sfendant, ptt! duc qui ems rne we Sic animis tum inventumqce poems lavand’, {ijt um det rg er BENS, cenpestbedsbetnet sri IMibcadgoe pg doe tochie quiets a trspbeal alas tolant inane cosas! alot ver tamcn adel fgere uid? ier ct ingens recat enter perro nmin Santstde Hlee remota sb ont Terme ao ner pee al SURE as nent aoe pers Ba riers eee Of 2 Tari pt FI Ee ples, Sea eee ey be he ‘THE ART OF POETRY, ss7-384 10 the post who afte defwults, becomes, methinks, ‘nother Choc, whose one or two good lines cause ieughter and srprises and yet shencver good Homer nda lanes domsy mou may well rep overt 20% ‘oom & tke a pete one ces yoar fancy mere, he nearer you Fan’ another the farcher way. This courts he shade, thet wil wich to'be seen fo the light, and dreads not the ete Insight of the judge. This peared but once thay Ahoagh ten tes cated for, will always please ‘tO ‘you elder youthy though wise foucll and trained Go right judgement bya father’ vice, ake to heart atl remember this tying, that only'some ‘ings rightly brook the median and the bearable Aewyer tnd plender of middling renk falls short of the merit of eloquent Mesalla and knows not ss such as Aulus Chcelus, yet he has a values Bet {hat pots be of midiing tank, nether men or gods tor bookscles eer brooked. “As a plessant Fame Quets an ordestra out of tane, an unguent that ie thick, and poppyseedscerved with Sernian honey? fre ounce, because the fact might have goue Ca Without them to poem, whose Bt and Creation ie for the tals delight, if in aught it falls short Af he tp inks fo te btn. He wh amet Flay a game, shone the weapons of the Campus? fd, if Usked in ball or quoit or hoop remaita Alot, lest the eroded circle bresk out fn Highteoos Inoginer. Yet te man nho knows not how dare o frame verse. Why not? He is fev even hee, bom ny, ated a he forte of sag and Sand ele from every blemih ‘The Campus Maria a Rome, arHORACE Toh ited te! Meas ee ioe sy Seen a ae See aout pean anno, tmembrens nt pss doer ot seemed i ert 3b Se nacre Soom ce ee Oa Sane ips lle ln were tatsinc ye Hanke 36 vtita eka sete nat oa SS tc a ne mari Tmgtetnimen doa age wo Sete ak en naa ble Heat mokono Tremenda a pte Sena es otewes Re . 0M, 7 ara "acu alle" mapdoe aC, pe pes ece Mae eon Ga a Tea Ee ia Lan, he laws of Solon were pablisles thus. RE emote ei . 1 Beare are SEE ws wane se sla ie ake a salimus iscsi ae ‘THE ART OF POETRY, sis07 % But yu will say nothing and do nothing sen Mie ill sa Fe Sagem, fach your good sence. Yet if eve you fe wong anything, tet it"enter the ear af ome eee Miccias$ and your fathers, and my own then pat your patchient ia the ehset and Leep Te mek Mt the th ger, Win ou Bava mt gid you ean destroy the word once sent flea acer some beck ‘While men stil roamed the woods, Orphess, fhe holy prophet ofthe gods, made them shri ot Blooded and brutal sng? Renee the fable that he tamed tigers and ravening Hons; hence tone fete that Amphion bulderaficbes'vctadel movedstones by 3 oud th yan ed thou wither he vould by his sappleating spel. In days of yore the ‘ss wisdom, tres in between paoaedekoas Tights, erween things sacred an things sere {Dheck vagrant union, to give rules for wedded to build fowas, and grave laws on table of woods sod 30 honour ad fae fell to bards and tele ‘ngs cvine* "After thes Homer wens seaane, sed Tyriacus? with his venes fed manly hess fe Batted of Man In song oracles were rem ad the’ way of Dfe was shown the favo Of ne vas sought jn Pcian strain and mich mos foe {© clove tails long spells So you need, pox Bene fr the Mase sled Inthe ire) and for Aplin oat song 1 In dete poy uh Masa ad pore potey Sik eens to Fads, Simrad and Busey, ‘hed ne fa lh as ASEM agra occ of the Donyiat” Gf apaHORACE Natura frst Indabie carmen an art, aquacdiam ent: ogo nee stadium sine dite vena, Acre upon ven nena: rue 0 Alera powstepom rs et confarat amie. Gil suetoptntem suerscontngere mean Thala tlt fete poor sudan abit Elstinait Vener et voo qu Pythin cant Uhloen, dics prs extmulgue magistrum. Ae Se Senupe extrem scales} mihi turpe relingl ext tquod non didi sane nese faterh peace, ad meres tarbar qui egitemendss, dsentatoreslnbet ad aera ie oct to ives poi in fener cara snctam qui reste ponere posit tepondere lon pro paupere et erpere att it imp, labor oat iter Tice donne seu quid donare voles ea? ait ad verso ti acon dacere plenum ese clam ein” pai en plese! super hi tat slab an Ex cabs revere, enc taadet eieterm. {got conduct! plrant in fener dewnt tt Sadane prope para doletibus ex ani le Aero vero pls laudatore movstr. regesoantur mote ungere eal Patt tae tat BO. Baie, «an wang. "+ qo Bgut P_ ‘at ne oR iter bea sob gulag ad me vee wins. orto gas at pol ny apy keen” Baas a THE ART OF POETRY, 193-42 © Often its asked whether a praiseworthy poem be due to Nature or to art. For'my part, Pap not 0 of what aval i eltherstudyy whatnot eonsied by Nature's velo, or native wily i untreined oe tpuly does each clan the other's ad, and mae with 8 flendly league. He. who in the racecourse ‘ezavesto reach the longed-for goal, has bors ssc and done much as « boy, has sweated and shivered, Is kept aloof from wine and Women, “The flasks; yrho playa at the Pythian games, has few lessned Is lessons and bogn in aw of a master: ‘To-day "oe gnough to say: “I fashion wondrous poems’ the devil take the hindmost '@ "Tis unseemly for tne to be left behind, and to confess that I sealy do aot now what T have never learned. £9 Like the crier, who gathers a crowd to. the suction of hie wares, 20 the poet bide faterers ack to the call of gainy i he Is ich in lands, and ich in ‘moneys put ott at interest. Bat if he be one whe an fitly'serve a dainty dinner, and be surety Ba poor man ofitle creditor can vescue ene entuagled tn gloomy suit-at-iaw, T shall wondes Ifthe hippy fellow will be able to distinguish between a #205 and a true fiend,” And you if you bave given or aire to lve «preset to tnjone do not beg hin, In the fnew of his joy, to hear venwes you hare written, For ‘he. will call out Fine] grad’ Derfecti” He will change colour over thenty he Will ven distil the dew fom his Mendy eyes he Jill dance and thump the ground with his fect.” Ar Tired mourners at «Tuner say and do almost more than thote who grieve at hese s0 the man whe mocks fore moved than the tue admirer "Ringe Weare to, ply with many a bumper end tet with ‘85HORACE cet torquere mero, quem perspexsseIaborent#! 6 pean Sora ne ee Pera at saat am ee tle cg Stas KS atte pee St ee at rca Steet aildieerem, SEER cece men tals ea espn mete, Fer a irate Sent eM et ace Spa a eatin ‘shame pr is oe eg Sn ery mands we, SES Sa reg eeu fel Art gues de atest emis teoplenee dr pe et ee rere eg oat wie ta i sei et epee ptm, {ert agar po espe ego cin ai ris cent, LETC aay et, * tocapiplcntyue als fugentgae Mf fagiuntque Kc x Idi to the fox's er ena hy Homerte echolur 2neaneat eon tan nm hi (ene eng ges on aint ieee se 0 as ‘THE ART OF POPTRY, «35-87 wine the man they are anxious to seo through, whether he be worthy of their feiendchip. If mean to fashion verses, never let the intent, Turks beneath the fox ensaare you® “OF If you ever nad aaght b2 Quintus be would say: Bray corest thie and this.” If efter eno ot tree vain tials you said you could not do better, the would bid you blot ft outy and return the i. shaped verses tothe anvil. Te you prefered defend. ing! your mistake to amending if, he would waste s0t & word more, would spend no fruitless tl, to Prevent your loving yourself and your work slone Without rival An honest and sensible man wil censure lifeless lines, he will find foul. with arch ones if they are gracelees, he will draw his pen across an smear thew with a black stroke he wil cit away pretentious omament ; he wil force you to lood the obveure with light, will conic the dsb. fal phrase, will ack what shoold be changed, wil provean Aristarchas "He will not ony, Why should T give offence 10 a friend about tiles?” These teiles will bring that fend into serous trouble, A once he has been laughed down and given, a solacey reception. ‘8 As when the accursed itch plagues a man, of the disease of kings! or aft of fenay and Diana's sweat, 50 men of sense fear to touch a cary poet and run away ¢chidren tease and pursue him sash. Ho, ‘with head uprased splatters veees aad of he seas Resort copia bo led bene the EES repeal sor, ws ou unis il es ape 867" eas aupponed tn be cansed by the moon, snd te moot guddes Pes Diane, v 47HORACE ot veut mers ntents ect cept Jn pateunforeanve, eet "susie longum Glance“ iocves non at qu taller cure {heart quis nem fem e emer! fem, * gles an prudens ie ve deccerit atu scam can, Sea peta Tarra interim. deus innit babes) Gm eopte Empedocleardentem fds Aeteam fone” iti lecatque porte poste 4a Insta gu ervey idem fet octident ‘ev seme hoe fot, ee a retracts et fam fet home et pont Imesne moras suorem. «0 nee sts apparet, cur vers fact trum «1 ‘inxertin patios cneres, an triste bideatal Imoverit ineestas = cere fart, ac vlut urs, bicctos eavenevallt si fangere elatros, Indocti dstmgse Raga ects; em vero arriput, tenet oecdique legendo, ton mivura exter, nist plene crore, fod, Free sa STi thar ln into well ietdying vacsia Ply lesan es se ‘THE ART OF POETRY, 49-478 {Bens tke a fowler with his eyes upon blackbird he {all int w'well® or pt, despite is farseachng coy *"Helpy O ‘ellow-edzens | not a soul wil ee fp pall im ont, “And if one should eare to, lend ld nd let down rope, “How do you know,” Il xy “but that be threw hist inn purpose; and does aot ich to bo saved? and It be fale ofthe lanpoets end. Erpedactes, eager tobe Deught 4 god fmmoral, coolly leapt inte baring Actos Let poets have the right and power to destoy theme selves” Who saves man sant ie Wil doer the fone as murder him. “Not for the fst Ue ose dane this, nor if he is pulled out wil he at ones become human being tnd lay aside is eating be ‘notable death. Nor'is it ety clear how he seas lobeavenemoager. Hashe defled ncettal aches or In sacle disturbed a hallowed plot? At aay ‘tc hets mad, and ke «bear Fas ha stag totreal the confining bars of hs cage, he pulsed and vnlearned alike to Aight by ihe eaunge of hs Yeats If he catches ama, he holds hi fst aod ead him to death—a leech that wil nat let go te Sin il gorged with ood The biden vasa sot steak by ehnings which wae conse by 4 seh osha Clas