Answering those who called poets liars and corrupters, Philip Sidney argues that poetry teaches virtue better than philosophy or history because it delights while it instructs. He ranges over Plato, the Psalms, Chaucer and the English stage of his day. The edition adds a biographical introduction and a selection of his pastorals, songs and sonnets.
The founding work of English literary criticism, written with a courtier’s grace. Download the free EPUB.