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SirPhilipSidney(1554-86)isoneofthemostimportantwritersoftheEnglishRessaissance.InthisbookheturnshisattentiontothestatusofpoetryinEngland.DefenseofPoetry(alsoknownasADefenceofPoesie)—SidneywrotetheDefencebefore1583.ItisgenerallybelievedthathewasatleastpartlymotivatedbyStephenGosson,aformerplaywrightwhodedicatedhisattackontheEnglishstage,TheSchoolofAbuse,toSidneyin1579,butSidneyprimarilyaddressesmoregeneralobjectionstopoetry,suchasthoseofPlato.Inhisessay,SidneyintegratesanumberofclassicalandItalianpreceptsonfiction.Theessenceofhisdefenseisthatpoetry,bycombiningthelivelinessofhistorywiththeethicalfocusofphilosophy,ismoreeffectivethaneitherhistoryorphilosophyinrousingitsreaderstovirtue.TheworkalsooffersimportantcommentsonEdmundSpenserandtheElizabethanstage.
- INTRODUCTION
- AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE
- POEM: TWO PASTORALS
- POEM: DISPRAISE OF A COURTLY LIFE
- POEM: DIRGE
- POEM: STANZAS TO LOVE
- POEM: A REMEDY FOR LOVE
- POEM: VERSES
- POEM: TRANSLATION
- POEM: SIR PHILIP SIDNEYS SONNET IN REPLY
- POEM: A SONNET BY SIR EDWARD DYER
- POEM: MUST LOVE LAMENT?
- POEM: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS
- POEM: SONG
- POEM: THE SMOKES OF MELANCHOLY
- POEM: ODE
- POEM: VERSES
- POEM: SONG
- POEM: TRANSLATION
- POEM: SONNETS
- POEM: WOOING-STUFF
- POEM: SONNETS
- POEM: SONG
- POEM: SONG
- POEM: A FAREWELL
- POEM: THE SEVEN WONDERS OF ENGLAND
- SPLENDIDIS LONGUM VALEDICO NUGIS