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Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics) by Dr Gavin Alexander (Editor), Sir Philip Sidney, Trans. Benedicta Ward, G. Alexander (Foreword), Penguin Classics Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-14-143938-6 / 0141439386 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-143938-9 / 9780141439389 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 and most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer c |