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On Not Defending Poetry : Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy by Catherine Bates is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Sidney's Defence of Poesy--the foundational text of English poetics--is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's text, she identifies within it a model of poetry that is markedly at variance from the one presumed, and shows Sidney's text to be feeling its way toward a quite different--indeed, a de-idealist--p
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- Author
- Catherine Bates
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192512550
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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