{"product_id":"horaces-ars-poetica-jennifer-ferriss-hill-9780691195025","title":"Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manual\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor two millennia, the \u003ci\u003eArs Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eArt of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's baffling outlier. Here, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill for the first time fully reintegrates the \u003ci\u003eArs Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e into Horace's oeuvre, reading the poem as a coherent, complete, and exceptional literary artifact intimately linked with the larger themes pervading his work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArguing that the poem can be interpreted as a manual on how to live masquerading as a handbook on poetry, Ferriss-Hill traces its key themes to show that they extend beyond poetry to encompass friendship, laughter, intergenerational relationships, and human endeavor. If the poem is read for how it expresses itself, moreover, it emerges as an exemplum of art in which judicious repetitions of words and ideas join disparate parts into a seamless whole that nevertheless lends itself to being remade upon every reading. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEstablishing the \u003ci\u003eArs Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e as a logical evolution of Horace's work, this book promises to inspire a long overdue reconsideration of a hugely influential yet misunderstood poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Ferriss-Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691195021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691195025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d","brand":"Jennifer Ferriss-Hill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925629665535,"sku":"9780691195025","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_47d36ace-e232-466b-bc56-fa354f18c5fa.jpg?v=1681078408","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/horaces-ars-poetica-jennifer-ferriss-hill-9780691195025","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}