Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism 9780141936956, 9780141439389, 0141936959

Out of the intellectual ferment of the English Renaissance came a number of outstanding critical works that sought to de

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Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
 9780141936956, 9780141439389, 0141936959

Table of contents :
The defence of poesy (c. 1580
printed 1595) / Sir Philip Sidney --
The art of English poesy (1589) / George Puttenham --
A defence of rhyme (1603) / Samuel Daniel --
Certain notes of instruction (1575) / George Gascoigne --
From The garden of eloquence (1577
1593) / Henry Peacham --
From A discourse of English poetry (1586) / William Webbe --
A brief apology of poetry (1591) / Sir John Harington --
From Musophilus: containing a general defence of learning (1599) / Samuel Daniel --
From Observations in the art of English poesy (1602) / Thomas Campion --
From The advancement of learning (1605) / Francis Bacon --
'To Henry Reynolds, of poets and poesy' (1627) / Michael Drayton --
From Anacrisis, or, A censure of some poets ancient and modern (c. 1635) / Sir William Alexander --
'A fit of rhyme against rhyme' (before 1637) / Ben Jonson --
From Horace, his Art of poetry (before 1637) / Ben Jonson.

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