The Defence of Poesy

Name: The Defence of Poesy
Author: Philip Sidney

by Philip Sidney

Essay arguing for the superiority of poetry over other forms of human expression

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Philip Sidney

Sidney was a courtier, poet, and prose writer whose Arcadia established the pastoral romance as a serious literary form in English. His critical work An Apology for Poetry laid foundations for English literary criticism.

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