LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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“Of all philosopher’s Plato is the most poetic.” Who said this
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Philiph Sidney
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Shelley
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Aristlotle
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Keats
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Whereas Sidney’s popular philosopher in the passage quoted earlier is the poet, it is Plato, the author of the Republic, who emerges as the popular philosopher in Puritan attacks against literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -In all cases true poetry makes things “either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature.” Nature’s “world is brazen, ” Sidney argues; only the poets bring forth a golden one.
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