Horace (65-8 BC) was an ancient Roman poet. His early creations were satirical poems and long and short sentences similar in nature to satirical poems. Later, he engaged in the creation of lyric poems and called himself "song". Later generations called it "ode" based on his solemn style. Taking ancient Greek poetry as a model, he extensively absorbed various rhythms of Greek lyric poetry, successfully used Latin poetry in creation, reached a very perfect level, and pushed the creation of Roman lyric poetry to its peak. Horace has always been famous in Western Europe in ancient times and later generations. The concept of his poem "Monument" has been imitated by many famous European poets.
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The literary thoughts in Horace's "The Art of Poetry" mainly have three aspects: Regarding the essential issues of literature and art, he inherited the traditional theory of imitation, revealed the information of the theory of expression, and was also inspired by the theory of inspiration. The influence of literary and artistic creation - this is the main aspect, he tried to establish the principles of classicism, "fitness", rationalization, and moral principles for literary and artistic creation at that time; regarding the issue of writer's cultivation, he required writers to be virtuous and knowledge, you need both genius and diligence, and you need to correct your creative attitude.
"The Art of Poetry" is just some words of experience, but it became a classic of classicism and had a great influence on the later neoclassicism. Influence. In "The Art of Poetry", he placed "art", that is, the skill of writing poetry, in the first place; imitating Greek classics became an important principle throughout "The Art of Poetry"; he introduced in detail how to imitate. Horace promoted imitation, but was not opposed to innovation. But it is necessary to imitate and innovate at the same time, showing an eclectic tendency. On the question of genius and skill; on the function of art, that is, instruction or pleasure.
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