An Apologie for Poetrie by Sir Philip Sidney
An Apologie for Poetrie by Sir Philip Sidney

Author: Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-14

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0521166217

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When it was first published in 1891, this edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie (or the Defense of Poetry) represented a clear departure from previous editions. The Cambridge Fellow and classical scholar Evelyn S. Shuckburgh set to the task of correcting the numerous errors and alterations which had accumulated over the course of many previous editions, beginning with the folio version of 1598. Shuckburgh's text draws from the collation of seven earlier editions, giving precedence to the first printing of 1595 for which he consulted the copy held in the British Museum. The result is a precise and thorough text, complete with notes, a glossarial index and an introductory description of Sidney's life and works.

Sidney's Poetics
Sidney's Poetics

Author: Michael Mack

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0813213886

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Sidney's Poetics is essential reading not only for students and scholars of Renaissance literature and literary theory but also for all who want to understand how human beings write and read creatively.

Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

Author: Gavin Alexander

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-02-26

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 0141936959

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Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for English literature. Also includes George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy, Samuel Daniel's Defence of Rhyme, & passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon & George Gascoigne.

The Sound of Virtue
The Sound of Virtue

Author: Blair Worden

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780300066937

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Blair Worden reconstructs the dramatic events amidst which the Arcadia was composed and shows for the first time how profound is their presence in it. The Queen's failure to resist the Catholic advance at home and abroad, and her apparent resolve to marry the Catholic heir to the French throne, seemed likely to bring tyranny and persecution to England.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

Author: George Alexander Kennedy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 9780521300087

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This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.