poetic Art is a book of Nicolas Boileau writes in 1674. It treats fundamental rules to write a traditional Poème at the 17th century.

Extract

Surtout that in your writings the language either révérée

In your greater excesses is always crowned to you.

In vain you strike me of a mélodieux sound,

If the term is unsuitable, or the vicious turn.

you Hasten slowly, and, without losing courage,

Twenty times on the trade give your work;

Polish it unceasingly and repolish it:

Add some times and often erase.

It is little that in a work where the faults swarm,

Of the flashes of wit sown from time to time sparkles.

It is necessary that each thing is put there in its place;

That the beginning, the end answer the medium;

That of a delicate art the matched parts

form there one very various parts.

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