The Defence of Poesy
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The Defence of Poesy is Sir Philip Sidney’s influential Elizabethan literary criticism essay that defends the value and moral power of poetry.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Elizabethan literary criticism
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literary criticism essay ⓘ prose treatise ⓘ |
| addresses |
attacks on poetry by Puritans
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charges that poetry is frivolous ⓘ charges that poetry is immoral ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
A Defence of Poesie
NERFINISHED
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An Apology for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Sir Philip Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralClaim |
poetry has moral and ethical power
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poetry is superior to philosophy and history in moving people to virtuous action ⓘ poetry teaches and delights ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| dateWritten | circa 1579–1580 ⓘ |
| firstPrintedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose essay ⓘ |
| genre |
literary criticism
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poetics ⓘ |
| hasInfluencedAuthor |
John Dryden
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Percy Bysshe Shelley NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Taylor Coleridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
foundational text in English poetics
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one of the earliest major works of English literary criticism ⓘ |
| influenced |
English Renaissance literary criticism
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Romantic literary theory ⓘ defences of imaginative literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Horace NERFINISHED ⓘ Italian Renaissance criticism ⓘ Plato ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
delight as a vehicle for instruction
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poet as maker ⓘ poetry as a means to virtue ⓘ poetry as feigned history ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
defence of poetry
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didactic function of poetry ⓘ imitation in literature ⓘ moral value of poetry ⓘ poetry ⓘ relationship between poetry and truth ⓘ role of the poet ⓘ |
| originalMedium | manuscript circulation ⓘ |
| period | Elizabethan era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1595 ⓘ |
| setting | England in the late 16th century ⓘ |
| structure | argumentative treatise ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Sir Philip Sidney