Horace's "The Art of Poetry" is a Latin verse epistle offering advice on writing poetry to the Piso family. This work significantly influenced literary criticism and aesthetic theory throughout Western history.
Sources for Horace (Ars Poetica) — The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos
Horace (Ars Poetica) — The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos in Writing Fiction and Poetry
Held in the Writing Fiction and Poetry chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aristotle (S. H. Butcher, trans.) — On the Art of Poetry (Poetics) (c. 335 BCE)
- Walter Besant — The Art of Fiction: A Lecture (1884)
- Sherwin Cody — The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language (1903)
- Arnold Bennett — The Author's Craft (1914)
- Edith Wharton — The Writing of Fiction (1925)
- Percy Lubbock — The Craft of Fiction (1921)
- William Strunk Jr. — The Elements of Style (1918)
- Anonymous — How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (1901)
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
- Tom Hood — A Practical Guide to English Versification (1886)