Period A: British Literature 700-1660
Dublin Core
Title
Period A: British Literature 700-1660
Date
700-1660
Collection Items
The Defense of Poesy
In “The Defence of Poesy,” Sidney states, “having slipped into the title of a poet, [I] am provoked to say something unto you in the defense of that my unelected vocation.” In the piece he defends “poor poetry” and argues that poetry, whose “final…