Book description
Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans
denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public
morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the
first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense.
Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to
Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for English
literature. Also includes George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy,
Samuel Daniel's Defence of Rhyme, & passages by writers such as Ben
Jonson, Francis Bacon & George Gascoigne. Gavin Alexander,
University Assistant Lecturer in English & Fellow of Christ's
College, Cambridge, has written on the Sidney family & circle, &
the literary response to him.
