An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in th

One of the most important works of Renaissance literary criticism, Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie for Poetrie defends the value of poetry and the arts in an ag

When it was first published in 1891, this edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie (or the Defense of Poetry) represented a clear departure from prev