Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2004
544 pages
978-0-14-193695-6 (ISBN)
Description
Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for English literature. Also includes George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy, Samuel Daniel's Defence of Rhyme, & passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon & George Gascoigne.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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2,30 MB
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978-0-14-193695-6 (9780141936956)
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Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
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Gavin Alexander, University Assistant Lecturer in English & Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, has written on the Sidney family & circle, & the literary response to him.
