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

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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 R

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