In the canon
The Defence of Poesy
Philip Sidney
- Form
- Form Essay
- Year
- Year 1595
- Pages
- Pages 80
In a riding school in Vienna, an Italian horsemaster praised horses so ardently that his young English pupil came away half wishing he were one. Philip Sidney opens with that joke on himself and then makes the same case for poetry, which he calls his unelected vocation, and the joke turns into the first great argument in English for why made-up stories matter.
a speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.