INTRODUCTION
licity. As criticism it is of true sort; not captious or formal, still less engaged, as nearly all bad criticism is, more or less, suggestion of tic oerature. aims, and finds true work, and s song.
ting of ted to t an earnest young student, Stepy about time res , and e plays, urned by to agreement an attacks made by t on tage (arising c t plays ed on Sundays), and in 1579 transferred o attack on t;taining a Pleasant Invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, and sucerpillars of a Commonting up to ters, Natural Reason, and Common Experience: a Discourse as pleasant for Gentlemen t favour Learning as profitable for all t ue.quot; ted quot;to t noble Gentleman, Master P; Sidney e verse, s, and counted Edmund Spenser among an opinion t o attacks on poetry and music as feeders of idle appetite t y. to se in 1581 t printed in 1595, nine years after e publication, entitled quot;An Apologie for Poetrie.quot; ter o tion of ;Arcadia,quot; and titled quot;t; In sixteen subsequent editions it continued to appear as quot;t;
title e editions of 1752 and 1810.
Professor Edext of t edition of 1595, and restored title, o ts aut as t;apologyquot; cs sense in current Englis may be o go on calling t;t;
In 1583 Sidney er of Sir Francis alsings ten by o old faso a lady in accordance esy t in to exclude personal suit--personal suit e, and not public--o grave misappreics. t een years old--into a eful marriage h Lord Rich.
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