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

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ISBN 10: 0141439386 / ISBN 13: 9780141439389

Published by Penguin Classics, 2004

About this Item

Light shelf wear. Sticker shadow on front cover. Else clean and tight. Contains marginalia and/or underlining.

Seller Inventory # mon0000155338

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141439386
• ISBN 13: 9780141439389
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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 and most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics and, 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, and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, and George Gascoigne.

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About the Author

Gavin Alexander is a University Assistant Lecturer in English & Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and has written on the Sidney family and circle and the literary response to him.