Philip Sidney

Ulf Egeberg

01.11.2010

Sir Philip Sidneys An vindication for Poetry
Sir Phillip Sidney was a courtier, soldier, statesman, amateur scholar and a poet in his days of the 16th deoxycytidine monophosphate. In our context of literary criticism, he is known for his essay named An Apology for Poetry, where he two explores the core concepts and answers to earlier criticism of rhyme. The text itself deals with three major(ip) topics: The dignity or power of poetry and the addressing of general reexamination against poetry, especially those of Plato, and an examination of the current state of English literature1. In this essay I will provide some minimize for Sidneys literary criticism and explore these topics, and see how it fits with interchangeable theories.

We need to go back in time for to the full understanding the background that Sidney wrote his text against. While Plato (ca. 427 247 B.C.E.) did not draw up any explicit literary theories, he criticized poetry by means of his texts, mainly Ion and Republic. This was based on a scepticism regarding poetical representation of models or ideas, as this would distance one from the unceasing ideals. In the idea-world of Plato, every physical chair is a re-create of the mere idea of the chair, and a drawing of that chair is a copy of a copy of the original idea.



This model applies to poetry in the same way2, and for Plato (or Socrates) was not poetry any form of art, but merely a form of divinely exalt madness.3 But Platos and Socrates critique against poetry mustiness be seen in the light of the society they lived in, where it was common look that poets know all crafts, all human affairs.4 On the other hand, Aristotle, Platos pupil, took one step further in area of literary criticism by writing a text about poetry itself, Poetics. In this text he explores poetry, but most important, he defines it as a craft. An Apology for Poetry (1595) was written in a 16th century renaissance literary climate that was concerned about the esthetical problems regarding...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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