Defending Literature in Early Modern England
Subtitle: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521035187
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Eastern Europe; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European
First sentence: Why was poetry so frequently defended in the English Renaissance on the grounds of its "profitable pleasure," its ability, as Philip Sidney perhaps most famously puts it, to "delight and teach; and delight, to move men to take that goodness in hand, which without delight they would fly as from a stranger"?