Sidney's Defence of Poesy is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct which readers are inspired to imitate. Catherine Bates challenges this view, and shows how idealist poetics is complicit with the money form and its related ills: commodification, fetishism, and the abuse of power.
Sidney's Defence of Poesy is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct which readers are inspire...
The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520 1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry.
The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520 1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry off...
