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

by Gavin Alexander (Editor), Gavin Alexander (Editor)

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  2004

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  Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turned 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 Defense of Rhyme , & passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon & George Gascoigne.