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Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586

"A Defence of Poesie and Poems"


{14} And idealize man.
{15} Here a Second Part of the Essay begins.
{16} Part 1. Poetry defined.
{17} Part 2. Its kinds. a. Divine.
{18} Philosophical, which is perhaps too imitative.
{19} Marcus Manilius wrote under Tiberius a metrical treatise on
Astronomy, of which five books on the fixed stars remain.
{20} Poetry proper.
{21} Part 3. Subdivisions of Poetry proper.
{22} Its essence is in the thought, not in apparelling of verse.
{23} Heliodorus was Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly, and lived in the
fourth century. His story of Theagenes and Chariclea, called the
"AEthiopica," was a romantic tale in Greek which was, in Elizabeth's
reign, translated into English.
{24} The Poet's Work and Parts. Part 1. WORK: What Poetry does
for us.
{25} Their clay lodgings -
"Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."
(Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice," act v., sc. 1)
{26} Poetry best advances the end of all earthly learning, virtuous
action.
{27} Its advantage herein over Moral Philosophy.
{28} It's advantage herein over History.
{29} "All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorising thy trespass with compare."
Shakespeare, "Sonnet" 35.
{30} "Witness of the times, light of truth, life of memory,
mistress of life, messenger of antiquity.


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