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o Rania Hashem AbuIyazeid

o Mariam Mohamed Ghalia
o Asmaa Ahmed Fathy
o Dalia Noah
Literary criticism
“Sir Philip Sideny as a critic”
Who is Sir Philip Sideny?

 Sir philip Sideny was born in kent in 1554 and died

in Netherlands in 1586. He was a courtier, soldier,
poet and diplomat. He won admiration at an early
age for his courtly skills and intellectual curiosity.

 He is often cited as an archetype of well-rounded

“Renaissance man”. His talents encompassed not
only poetry and cultivated learning but the virtues
of statemanship and military service.
 His major works.

Astrophel and Stella.

The countess of pembroke’s Arcadia.
A Defense of poetry or Apology for poetry.
A defensy of poesy (1595)
 The Renaissance

The Renaissance was an era of changes.

In this age,there was william caxton introduced the printing
press to England.
The widening areas of exploration led to discovering a fundamental
and new direction to literature and literary criticism.
The English literature in this period is known as humanism.
 Stephen Gossen
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 He is best known for his attack on plays, poetry, and other
arts in The School of Abuse (1579), which evoked in
replay a defense from Thomas lodge and Sir Phillip
Sideny‘s Aplogy for poetry.
 Stephen Gossen makes charges on poetry which Sidney
answers.
 The charges are:
1) Poetry is mother of lie
2) It is nurse of abuse
3) Poetry is the waste of time.
4) Plato had rightly banshed the poets from his ideal world.
 SIDENY’S DEFENSE

Poetry is the source of knowledge and a civilizing force.

A poet does not lie because he never affirms that his fiction is
true and can never lie.
Sideny rejects that poetry is the source of abuses. To him, it is
people who abuses poetry, not the vice-versa.
Sideny views that plato in his Republic wanted to banish the
abuse of poetry not the poets.
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