How Long to Read Horace's Ars Poetica

How Long Does it Take to Read Horace's Ars Poetica?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read Horace's Ars Poetica by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manual For two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), 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 Ars Poetica into Horace's oeuvre, reading the poem as a coherent, complete, and exceptional literary artifact intimately linked with the larger themes pervading his work. Arguing 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. Establishing the Ars Poetica as a logical evolution of Horace's work, this book promises to inspire a long overdue reconsideration of a hugely influential yet misunderstood poem.

How long is Horace's Ars Poetica?

Horace's Ars Poetica by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill is 348 pages long, and a total of 89,784 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Horace's Ars Poetica Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 10 minutes to read Horace's Ars Poetica aloud.

What Reading Level is Horace's Ars Poetica?

Horace's Ars Poetica is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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