Philip Sidney and the poetics of Renaissance cosmopolitanism [electronic resource] / Robert E. Stillman.
Publication details: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2008.Description: xvi, 266 pSubject(s):- Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Apologie for poetrie
- Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 -- Political and social views
- Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 -- Knowledge -- Poetry
- Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and morals
- Cosmopolitanism in literature
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- PR2343 .S78 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: poetry and the public domain -- "Famous preachers and teachers" : mediating the cause -- The "noblest scope" : reading, writing and early modern poetics -- "The enjoying of his own divine essence" : poetry and piety -- "Captived to the truth of a foolish world" : poetry and the politics of tyranny -- Conclusion: reproducing Cyrus : The defence of poesy and a cosmopolitan culture of books.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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