The Defence of Poesie.
- Author/Editor
- Sidney, Sir Philip.
- Title
- The Defence of Poesie.
- Published
- Sidney, Sir Philip. "The Defence of Poesie." The Prose Works of Philip Sidney. Vol. 3 of 4. Edited by Albert Feuillerat. Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press, 1912. Reprinted 1962, 1963, 1968, p. 4.
- Review
- Gower and Chaucer compared to Amphion, Orpheus, Livy, Andronicus, Ennius, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio as users of mother-tongue for poetry, and of beginning English tradition. Originally written some years earlier, the "Defence" was first published by William Ponsonby of London in 1595. [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1595
1912
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion