Sidney's 'The defence of Poesy' and selected Renaissance literary criticism / edited and with an introduction and notes by Gavin Alexander.
Title:
Sidney's 'The defence of Poesy' and selected Renaissance literary criticism / edited and with an introduction and notes by Gavin Alexander.
Other Title:
Defence of Poesy and selected Renaissance literary criticism
Publication:
London ; New York : Penguin, 2004.
Publication Date:
2004
ISBN:
9780141439389
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Language:
English
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