An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in th

Sidney's sonnet cycle, consisting of 100 sonnets, followed by 11 Songs, is, after Shakespeare's, the finest sonnet cycle in the English language. Sidney explore

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