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STEIDLE, W., Studien zur Ars Poetica des Horaz. Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 1967. Photomechanical reprint ed. 1939. 147p. Sewn. ‘This Berlin dissertation, written under the direction of Stroux, is in the main an excellent piece of work. It pays tribute to Norden’s paper of 1905, which has dominated recent study of the ‘Ars Poetica’, but opposes the rigid scheme into which Norden and his followers forced the poem. Norden was tight in recognising the importance of the rhetorical background of the poem but worn in trying to make a set rhetorical treatise out of it. (…) Steidl proposes to study the poem itself. (…) Most of the book is detailed commentary on verses 1-294 of the poem. It is, in fact, an edition of these lines, without the text. Steidle lets Horace interpret the poem for us by citing passages from other poems, notably the ‘Satires’. (…) The significance of his monographs lies in marking a new trend in our study of the poem.’ (B.L. ULLMAN in Classical Philology, 1940, pp.450-451). € 14.50 (Antiquarian)