Horace's Ars Poetica (19-18 BCE) explains poetic art and technical advice. Decorum means proper and becoming in thought, action and style. Principle originated from Aristotle's Rhetoric and Cicero's Orator
A poet is someone who studies and creates poetry. Poets have existed since prehistory in nearly all languages. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in Sumer around 2100 BC
Born in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Harvard professor father. Worked as ambulance driver during World War I, imprisoned in France. Published first poetry collection "Tulips and Chimneys" in 1923. Wrote approximately 2,900 poems and four successful plays
Homer wrote enduring epics The Iliad and The Odyssey. Sappho, an ancient Greek poet, wrote about love and religion. Sappho's poems were set to music and earned her "Ode to Aphrodite" fame
Horace's epistle to Piso family written around 15 BC. Originally written in dactylic hexameter, translated into prose. Offers practical advice to beginning poets
Born in 1759 in Alloway, Scotland, to tenant farmer William and Agnes Brown Burnes. Became excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796. Published first work in 1786, "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"