Defending Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney

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Though he spent only a brief period as a courtier of Elizabeth I, Sir Philip certainly cut a dashing figure.  He also dashed off one of the most influential works of literary theory in English.  And he was quite the dab hand at versifying.  Today, we look at Sidney's Defence of Poesie, "Ye Goatherd Gods" from Arcadia, and sonnets from Astrophil and Stella.

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