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An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance.
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Defence of Poesy from books.google.com
Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals.
Defence of Poesy from books.google.com
In its radical reading of the Defence, this book thus makes a decisive intervention in the field of early modern studies, while raising larger questions about a culture determined to quantify the 'value' of the humanities and to defend the ...