The complete online text of The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos by Horace.

Horace wrote poetry ranging from iambi (epodes) and sermones (satires and epistles) to carmina (lyrics). These poems paint a detailed self-portrait—laughing poet of moderation; ironic and gentle moralist; enigmatic observer of the Augustan principa...

Horace wrote poetry ranging from iambi (epodes) and sermones (satires and epistles) to carmina (lyrics). These poems paint a detailed self-portrait--laughing poet of moderation; ironic and gentle moralist; enigmatic observer of the Augustan principate; a...

Horace (65 BC-8 BC), or Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a Roman lyric poet, satirist, and literary critic. He is generally considered one of the greatest lyric poets of the world. Horace's boast was to have been "the first to have brought over Aeolian song...

Cuban exile Nicolas Guillen's use of the letter-writing form in his poem "Epistola" evokes a sense of longing for pre-revolutionary Cuba. His use of the imagery of food and geographic features creates a strong feeling of nostalgia. Nicolas Guillen (1902-1989) has written, in...

MANY CONTEMPORARY POETS certainly bear some blame for the steady shrinkage of their audience; it is unlikely that readers will rush home after a long day to devour a volume of modernist or postmodernist verse, as might have once been done with the...