It begins by describing a painting that shows a head of a man with all kinds of weird animal features, thus arguing for simplicity and unity in style. The author attributes to Thespis the thought of traveling performances, complete with wine on the a
It begins by describing a painting that shows a head of a man with all kinds of weird animal features, thus arguing for simplicity and unity in style. The author attributes to Thespis the thought of traveling performances, complete with wine on the actors' faces. The author also cautions the critic to be honest enough to cross out words, as Aristarchus did to Homer. The work contends that knowledge and morality supply the writer his material, and thus famously states that literature is a mingling of "the useful and the sweet." Addressed to Lucius Piso and his sons, this is, for 10 points, what work of literary criticism, written by Horace?
It begins by describing a painting that shows a head of a man with all kinds of weird animal features, thus arguing for simplicity and unity in style.
{Ars Poetica} or The {Art of Poetry}  (accept equivalents for the English)