Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

Sir Philip Sidney
The Defence of Poesy (c.1580; printed 1595)

George Puttingham
Th Art of English Poesy (1589)

Samuel Daniel
A Defence of Rhyme (1603)

Selected Passages
George Gascoigne
Certain Notes of Instruction (1575)

Henry Peachum
The Garden of Eloquence (1577; 1593)

William Webbe
A Discourse of English Poetry (1586)

Sir John Harington
A Brief Apology of Poetry (1591)

Samuel Daniel
from Musophilus: Containing a General Defence of Learning (1599)

Thomas Campion
from Observations in the Art of English (1602)

Francis Bacon
from The Advancement of Learning (1605)

Michael Drayton
To Henry Reynolds, or Poets and Poesy (1627)

Sir William Alexander
from Anacrisis. Or a Censure of some Poets Ancient and Modern (c. 1655)

Ben Jonson
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme (before 1637)

Ben Jonson
from Horace, his Age of Poetry (before 1637)

A Note on Rhetoric
A Note on English Versification
Notes
Index