In classical rhetoric and poetic theory, decorum designates the appropriateness of style to subject.

Horace's Art of Poetry, probably published as a separate work, greatly influenced later poetic theories.

Slides contained statements about poets' unhappy lives and quotations about poetic theory.

Robert Graves used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology.

Its introduction or preface presents a profound poetic theory.

From the perspective of traditional poetic theory, almost the entire song, excluding the chorus, can be described as being written in anapestic tetrameter.

Artistic inspiration is closely related to "genius" in poetic theory.

Medieval poetic theory, however, did not regard comedy and elegy as mutually exclusive, nor identical.

Just what relationship may have existed with a metric foot in ancient or medieval poetry or poetic theory is not entirely clear (Roesner 2001).

Hölderlin was a poet-thinker who wrote, fragmentarily, on poetic theory and philosophical matters.