Philip Sidney and the poetics of Renaissance cosmopolitanism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stillman, Robert E., 1954-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Subjects:	Sidney, Philip, > 1554-1586 > Criticism and interpretation. Sidney, Philip, > 1554-1586. > Apologie for poetrie. Sidney, Philip, > 1554-1586 > Political and social views. Sidney, Philip, > 1554-1586 > Knowledge > Poetry. Politics and literature > England > History > 16th century. Literature and society > England > History > 16th century. Literature and morals. Cosmopolitanism in literature.

Table of Contents:

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.