From my own understanding, poetry is much more predominant to philosophy, Sidney moreover shows

that it could be a superior instructional device to history. The issue with history is that must adhere to
what really happened. And ethical lessons aren’t always simple to infer from history, particularly when
evil triumphs over goodness. What kind of ethical message does that entail? Except in poetry, Sidney
contends, evil does not actually triumph: Good continuously overcomes it. It is almost the part of the
poet in culture or society. Sidney takes to great lengths to illustrate that all the incredible civilizations of
the world have exalted poetry and the work of the writers. For Sidney, poetry isn't only a portion of
civilization: it is civilization. Poetry is a civilized form of art. Poetry can bring you closer to God. It can
“give right honor to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set
him beyond and over all the works of that second nature; which in nothing he showeth so much as in
poetry”. In the event that God is our ‘Maker’, the poet can also be considered to be like a Maker as well.
And in that fashion, it poetry can be accepted as most resplendent and highest form that art itself could
take.