A Defence of Poesie and Poems
A Defence of Poesie and Poems
by Philip Sidney
Contents:
Introduction by Henry Morley
A Defence of Poesie
Poems
INTRODUCTION
Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst, in Kent, on the 29th of November, 1554. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, had married Mary, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and Philip was the eldest of their family of three sons and four daughters. Edmund Spenser and Walter Raleigh were of like age with Philip Sidney, diff ...