Table of Contents
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary CriticismChronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
Sir Philip Sidney
The Defence of Poesy (c.1580; printed 1595)
George Puttingham
Th Art of English Poesy (1589)
Samuel Daniel
A Defence of Rhyme (1603)
Selected Passages
George Gascoigne
Certain Notes of Instruction (1575)
Henry Peachum
The Garden of Eloquence (1577; 1593)
William Webbe
A Discourse of English Poetry (1586)
Sir John Harington
A Brief Apology of Poetry (1591)
Samuel Daniel from Musophilus: Containing a General Defence of Learning (1599)
Thomas Campion from Observations in the Art of English (1602)
Francis Bacon from The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Michael Drayton
To Henry Reynolds, or Poets and Poesy (1627)
Sir William Alexander from Anacrisis. Or a Censure of some Poets Ancient and Modern (c. 1655)
Ben Jonson
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme (before 1637)
Ben Jonson from Horace, his Age of Poetry (before 1637)
A Note on Rhetoric
A Note on English Versification
Notes
Index