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«The Art of Poetry» (French: L'Art poetique) — is a verse treatise by the French poet, critic, theorist of classicism N. Boileau (1636–1711), translated by Maxim Rylsky.

The basic aesthetic principles of French classicism Boileau outlined in his most famous work «The Art of Poetry». Despite being more than three hundred years old, the treatise is still interesting today for its original statements about artistic creativity, especially about the role of passion and power in aesthetic experience. The work is replete with apt and sometimes witty thoughts, such as: «To reach the poetry of the Parnassian hills is the mad dream of one who is not a son of it…».