num_pages: 112
description: Often seen as a key to understanding Elizabethan poetry, Sidney's persuasive treatise follows the rules of rhetoric in presenting evidence of the virtues of poetry. Sidney argues with wit and irony that poetry is the art which best teaches what is good and true. This seems a fitting argument for this prominent experimental poet who himself is said to have represented 'life and action good and great'.
language: English
title: A Defence of Poetry
titlecomplete: A Defence of Poetry
genres: Classics, School, Criticism, English Literature, Essays, Philosophy, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, 16th Century
ratings_count: 1940
publisher: Oxford University Press