Sir Philip Sidney

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• Sir Philip Sidney
• An Apology for POETRY

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• Hanaa Mansour Mansour.
• Literary appreciation course.
• Dr. Ayman Al hallaq.
• Class202
• 220111759

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The outline

• Brief notes about Sir Philip Sidney .
• The School of Abuse by Stephan Gosson.
• The Defense of poesy
• The DEFINITION of poetry and its FUNCTION .

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Sir Philip Sidney

• (30 November 1554 17 October 1586)
• He was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and
  is one of the most prominent figures of the
  Elizabethan age.
• His major works
• Astrophel and Stella
• The defense of poesy
• The lady of May

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The school of abuse

• Stephan Gosson has some charges on poetry
• Poetry is useless and a waste of time
• Poetry is the mother of lies
• Poetry is a nurse of abuse
• There was a tradition that PLATO had banished
  poets from the Republic

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1- poetry is a waste of time

• Poetry has been the first light giver to
  ignorance
• Poetry has been mans first source of inspiration
• Poetry is the teacher of all sciences, scientific
  books were written in rhyme.
• Poetry can be found among all civilizations

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1- poetry is a waste of time

• The Roman word for the poet means prophet,
  and the Greek word is creator or maker.
• The Greek and Roman philosophers, scientists, and
  historians were poets (including PLATO ) and they
  wrote their books in rhyme.

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1- poetry is a waste of time

• if it be as I affirm that no learning is so good
  as which teaches and moves to virtue. And that
  none can both teach and move so much as poetry
• Poetry is superior to philosophy and history
  because

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1- poetry is a waste of time

• Philosophy teaches virtue through abstract
  examples.
• History teaches virtue through real examples
  from facts and records.
• Poetry is the link between the IDEAL and the REAL
  (precept examples)
• the poet is the right popular philosopher
• The poet uses the facts of history to make them
  more noble by adding his own imagination.

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2-Poetry is the mother of lies

• Sidney answers that the poet does not lie
  because he never affirms that his fiction is true
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• The poetic truths are ideal and universal .
• He also said that the falsehood arises only where
  a period tells of facts, past or present and the
  poet has no concern with that

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3-Poetry is a nurse of abuse

• To Sidney, it is people who abuses poetry.
• . Abuses are more nursed by philosophy and
  history than by poetry, by describing battles,
  bloodshed, violence etc.
• On the contrary, poetry helps to maintain
  morality and peace by avoiding such violence and
  bloodsheds.
• All arts and sciences put evil effects, if they
  are misused

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4- PLATO had banished poets from the Republic

• Sidney views that Plato wanted to banish the
  abuse of poetry not the poets.
• Plato never says that all poets should be
  banished. He called for banishing only those
  poets who are inferior kind of poetry of his age
  and they misuse poetry .

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• The Definition of poetry "Poetry is an art of
  imitation, for so Aristotle terms it in the word
  mimesis--that is to say a representing,
  counterfeiting, or figuring forth to speak
  metaphorically, a speaking picture with this end,
  to teach and delight."

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The Definition of poetry

• He classified poetry into 3 kinds
• Religious poetry
• Philosophical poetry
• Imitative poetry
• BUT he gave importance to the third type WHY???

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Conclusion

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