A Defence of Poesie and Poems

by Philip Sidney

EN·~3 hours·1 chapter

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Transcribed from the 1891 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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~3 hours (177K characters)

Release date

1999-11-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1962

Subjects

Poetry -- Early works to 1800 PN

About the author

Philip Sidney

1554–1586

A brilliant courtier, soldier, and poet of Elizabethan England, he became one of the period’s most admired literary voices. His sonnets, prose romance, and writing on poetry helped shape English literature long after his early death in battle.

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