<Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> It would be impossible to overestimate the importance of Horace 's Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry ) for the subsequent history of literary criticism . Since its composition in the first century BCE , this epigrammatic and sometimes enigmatic critical poem has exerted an almost continual influence over poets and literary critics alike - perhaps because its dicta , phrased in verse form , are so eminently quotable . Horace 's injunction that poetry should both `` instruct and delight '' has been repeated so often that it has come to be known as the Horatian platitude . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl>
<Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> It would be impossible to overestimate the importance of Horace 's Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry ) for the subsequent history of literary criticism . Since its composition in the first century BCE , this epigrammatic and sometimes enigmatic critical poem has exerted an almost continual influence over poets and literary critics alike - perhaps because its dicta , phrased in verse form , are so eminently quotable . Horace 's injunction that poetry should both `` instruct and delight '' has been repeated so often that it has come to be known as the Horatian platitude . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl>
where does the advice that a playwright should attempt to please and instruct come from
where does the advice that a playwright should attempt to please and instruct come from
Horace 's Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry )
Horace 's Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry )