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Critical Apology Poetry Treatise Sir Philip Sidney Separate

Front an apology for poetry
Back critical treatise
sir Philip Sidney
1595
two separate editions
few of its ideas are original being Renaissance critical commonplace
masterpiece of elegant persuasion
careful rhetorical structure
golden world
to teach and delight
a digression looks at the state of English literature and find it sadly wanting but honorable exceptions of Chaucer's troilus and Criseyde , Surrey's poems, the mirror of magistrates, Spenser's Shepherd's calender and the play gorboduc

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