LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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Sir Thomas More
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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John Lyly
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Detailed explanation-1: -To, Sidney, poetry is an art of imitation for specific purpose, it is imitated to teach and delight. According to him, poetry is simply a superior means of communication and its value depends on what is communicated. So, even history when it is described in a lively and passionate expression becomes poetic.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Sidney, poetry teaches and delights but that is not all. he also points out the power of poetry to move the mind and to stir the heart. It can influence the reader’s behavior and conduct. After reading Homer’s “Odyssey”, everybody would like to perform a deed of similar virtue.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Philip Sidney, (born November 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, England-died October 17, 1586, Arnhem, Netherlands), Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Sydney, poetry is the earliest form of art. In, all the-branches of knowledge, poetry has given the first flight to ignorance. Sydney calls it, the first nurse whose milk little by little enabled man to feed afterwards of tougher knowledges.