It warns against flowery and irrelevant "purple patches," suggests a division into five acts, and compares its subject to painting.
Although it never explicitly uses the word, this work popularized the concept of "decorum" in insisting that unbelievable or grotesque actions not be depicted directly. It was written in verse as a letter to the Pisones. It warns against flowery and irrelevant "purple patches," suggests a division into five acts, and compares its subject to painting. This work also acknowledges that even Homer nods and praises that poet for not starting from the egg but beginning "in medias res." For 10 points, name this critical text by Horace.
Although it never explicitly uses the word, this work popularized the concept of "decorum" in insisting that unbelievable or grotesque actions not be depicted directly.
{Ars Poetica} [or The {Art} of {Poetry}]