Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

By Robert E. Stillman

Offering a fresh interpretation of Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, Robert E. Stillman's intellectually ambitious study challenges traditional scholarship by identifying the impact of his education by the followers of Philip Melanchthon-the so-called Philippists-on his poetics, piety, and politics. Sidney created the first Renaissance text to argue for poetry's pre-eminence as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain, and its consequent power to promote cultural reform.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754663698
• ISBN13: 9780754663690
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"