An Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's The Defence of Poesy by Liam Haydon

An Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's The Defence of Poesy by Liam Haydon

The Defence of Poesy is the first major piece of literary criticism in English. Taking aim at classical authors who disparaged poetry, and contemporary critics who saw literature as a corrupting influence, Sidney foregrounds the moral force of poetry. Sidney considers the real life affects of poetry upon the reader arguing that the stories instill virtues like courage in the reader. He combines this moral argument with a discussion of the technical features like genre, metre and rhyme. The Defence of Poesy thus began a long tradition of poets writing about poetry and is a touchstone for modern poetic criticism.

Liam Haydon was educated at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Manchester, where he wrote a PhD on Milton’s Paradise Lost. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce at the University of Kent. His work focuses on the cultural history of the seventeenth century, exploring connections between the corporation, economic ideology, and literature.

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Title	An Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's The Defence of Poesy
Author	Liam Haydon
Series	The Macat Library
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Macat International Limited
Year published	2018-05-15
Number of pages	96
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