A Defence of Poesie and Poems is a collection of Elizabethan essays and verse by Sir Philip Sidney. The central prose work argues that poetry has moral and educational value and deserves a respected place among the arts. The accompanying poems show Sidney's lyrical craft, making this a fine introduction to his thought and style.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
Transcribed from the 1891 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email [email protected] CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY. A Defence of Poesie and Poems. BY SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Decorative graphic CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited: LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE. 1891. INTRODUCTION Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst, in Kent, on the 29th of November, 1554. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, had married Mary, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and Philip was the eldest of their family of three sons and four daughters. Edmund Spenser and Walter Raleigh were of like age with Philip Sidney, differing only by about a year, and when Elizabeth became queen, on the 17th of November, 1558, they were children of four or five years old. In the year 1560 Sir Henry Sidney was made Lord President of Wales, representing the Queen in Wales and the four
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