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Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics) Book

Includes George Puttenham's 'Art of English Poesy', Samuel Daniel's 'Defense of Rhyme', and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and George Gascoigne.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • Penguin

    'The poet with that same hand of delight doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth' Out of the intellectual ferment of the English Renaissance came a number of outstanding critical works that sought to define and defend the role of literature in society and to comment on the craft of writing.

  • Blackwell

    Out of the intellectual ferment of the English Renaissance came a number of outstanding critical works that sought to define and defend the role of literature in society and to comment on the craft of writing. Foremost among these is Sir Philip...

  • 0141439386
  • 9780141439389
  • 26 February 2004
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 544
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