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An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after his death. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after his death.
Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a sonnet sequence , Astrophil and Stella , a treatise , The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poesie or An Apology for Poetrie ...
The Calender encompasses considerable formal innovations, anticipating the even more virtuosic Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The "Old" Arcadia, 1580), the classic pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney, with whom Spenser was acquainted. It is also remarkable for the extensive commentary or gloss included with the work in its first publication ...
Philip Sidney’s crititical work in An Apology for Poetry (1595) was a key precedent for Scott's treatise, The Model of Poesy (1599).. The treatise of The Model of Poesy (1599) is in three sections; [5] in the first section, Scott defines poetry and makes clear his debts to earlier theorists:
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century. . Having finished one version of his text, Sidney later significantly expanded and revised his
In his journal "Sir Philip Sidney's Psalms, the Sixteenth-Century Psalter, and the Nature of Lyric", Roland Greene praises Philip Sidney as "the premier English poetical theorist of the time". [13] However, most criticism and reviews of the Sidney Psalter focus on the later psalms written by Mary Sidney, with Moffet terming Mary Sidney's ...
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In 1858, William Stigant, a poet, essayist, and translator, wrote in his essay "Sir Philip Sidney" [7] that Shelley's "beautifully written Defence of Poetry" is a work which "analyses the very inner essence of poetry and the reason of its existence, – its development from, and operation on, the mind of man".