History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser

Jun 11, 2023

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Introduction

3min

Sidney's Defense of Poetry

1min

Sidney's Defense of Poetry

4min

Spencer's the Fairy Queen

3min

The Wild Fruit Which Savage Soil Has Bred

2min

The Bower of Bliss

2min

The Fairy Queen by Charles Spencer

2min

The Garden of Adonis

2min

The Moral Lesson of Spencer's Garden Scene

4min

We begin to look at Elizabethan literature, as Sidney argues that poetry is superior to philosophy, and philosophy is put to use in Spenser’s "Fairie Queene".

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