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And on the whole it remains true that the limitations of Sidney are the limitations of his age, while his generosity is his own. The remainder of the Apologie is necessarily of slighter texture.
It is quite clear too that it was written before Harsnett's Discovery of the Fraudulent Practices of John Darrel, for Darrel says that he hears that the Bishop of London is writing a book against him. The Triall of Maist. Dorrel, or A Collection of Defences against Allegations.... 1599. A brief Apologie proving the possession of William Sommers.
The main argument of the Apologie may indeed be called a commentary on the saying of Aristotle, cited by Sidney himself, that "Poetry is more philosophical and more studiously serious than History" that is, as Sidney interprets it, than the scientific fact of any kind; or again, on that yet more pregnant saying of Shelley, that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Gosson had denounced poetry as "the vizard of vanity, wantonness, and folly"; or, in Sidney's paraphrase, as "the mother of lies and the nurse of abuse". Sidney replies by urging that of all arts poetry is the most true and the most necessary to men.
Darrel, A Detection of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet, 40. And see above, p. 56, note. Harsnett, Discovery, 8. Ibid., 320-322; Darrel, An Apologie, or defence, L III, says that the third jury acquitted her. Harsnett refers to the fact that he was found guilty by the grand inquest. The Triall of Maist. Dorrel, preface "To the Reader." Harsnett, Discovery, 9. Ibid., 78-98.
"Vid dis apologie for the maniere, I vill now say dat, helas! Monsieur Simpson ave guess but de too true. Need I say de more? Helas! am I not ready speak de too moshe? This noble spirited note I kissed a million times, and committed, no doubt, on its account, a thousand other extravagances that have now escaped my memory. Still Talbot would not return.
It would be an evident mistake to suppose that this was merely a municipal prejudice, or to forget that the city council was backed by a large body of serious opinion throughout the country. A proof of this, if proof were needed, is to be found in the circumstances that gave rise to the Apologie of Sidney. The attack on the stage had been opened by the corporation and the clergy.
The Apologie is one of the first critical essays in English; and though its style now seems labored and unnatural, the pernicious result of Euphues and his school, it is still one of the best expressions of the place and meaning of poetry in any language. Astrophel and Stella is a collection of songs and sonnets addressed to Lady Penelope Devereux, to whom Sidney had once been betrothed.
He who most believes in progress needs most to resist its temptations. James H. Snowden: Is the World Growing Better? pp. 41-42. Francis Turner Palgrave: Faith and Light in the Latter Days. George Hakewill: An Apologie of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World, or An Examination and Censure of the Common Errour Touching Natures Perpetuall and Universall Decay.
Thus he defends poetry bcause it teaches morality by example and by allegory. With that higher intelligence and learning which have already been contrasted with the unthinking acceptance of his times Sir Philip Sidney wrote his Apologie for Poetrie.
Naude, in his "Apologie," says, simply, "that six millions were given by Raymond Lulli to King Edward, to make war against the Turks and other infidels:" not that he transmuted so much metal into gold; but, as he afterwards adds, that he advised Edward to lay a tax upon wool, which produced that amount.
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