An Apology for Poetry

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defence of poetry literary treatise work of literary criticism

An Apology for Poetry is Sir Philip Sidney’s influential Elizabethan literary treatise defending the value and moral power of poetry against its contemporary critics.

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instanceOf	defence of poetry ⓘ literary treatise ⓘ work of literary criticism ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	A Defence of Poesie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Defence of Poesy NERFINISHED ⓘ
author	Philip Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ
authorName	Sir Philip Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ
centralTheme	defence of the moral value of poetry ⓘ didactic function of poetry ⓘ pleasure and profit as aims of poetry ⓘ superiority of poetry over history and philosophy ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	England ⓘ
dateWritten	c. 1580 ⓘ
firstPublicationDate	1595 ⓘ
form	prose essay ⓘ
genre	poetics ⓘ rhetorical prose ⓘ
hasTitleWord	Apology ⓘ Poetry ⓘ
historicalContext	Elizabethan literary debates about poetry ⓘ
influenced	English Renaissance literary criticism ⓘ Romantic literary theory ⓘ defences of imaginative literature ⓘ
influencedBy	Aristotle’s Poetics NERFINISHED ⓘ Horace’s Ars Poetica NERFINISHED ⓘ Plato’s dialogues NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED ⓘ
keyArgument	poetry is more philosophical and more universal than history ⓘ poetry is not inherently immoral ⓘ poetry moves readers to virtue by delighting and teaching ⓘ the poet is a maker who creates a golden world ⓘ
keyConcept	hierarchy of learning with poetry at the top ⓘ imitation (mimesis) as creative making ⓘ poet as vates (prophet) and maker ⓘ poetry as a combination of delight and instruction ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Elizabethan era NERFINISHED ⓘ
literaryTradition	Western poetics ⓘ
mainSubject	aesthetics ⓘ ethics and literature ⓘ literary theory ⓘ poetry ⓘ
movement	Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
settingOfComposition	Elizabethan court culture ⓘ
significance	foundational text in English poetics ⓘ major defence of imaginative literature in English ⓘ one of the earliest works of English literary criticism ⓘ
targetAudience	educated Elizabethan readers ⓘ
writtenInResponseTo	Puritan attacks on poetry ⓘ Stephen Gosson’s The Schoole of Abuse NERFINISHED ⓘ

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