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Philip Sidney

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The perfect embodiment of the courtier-poet was a heroic nobleman born in one of the great houses of England, Penshurst Place, in 1554, and dead a mere thirty one years later on the battlefield fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands: Sir Philip Sidney. He achieved lasting fame for giving his water bottle to another wounded soldier with the words “Thy need is greater than mine.”

By his mid twenties, Sidney had already worked as Elizabeth’s ambassador abroad and has written and published the finest collection of love poems of his age. He had the liesure, the wealth, the education, the wit and the will to make English itself the subject of some of his poetry and his treatise about language, “A Defence of Poesy.” He composed music and songs, he was the very perfect courtier-poet. ~ Page 124

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Poetry and innovation it brought in because the benchmark for what might be called High English. In his ‘Defence of Poesy,’ Sidney praises a “sound Stile” that cannot allow “an old rustike language.” He argues that poetry should reach the ideal as opposed to imitating the reality. The poet can make a world more beautiful than nature did: words can change the world. This was an intoxicating challenge to the education young gallants and would-be gallants of England and they took it up. The testing ground for English was no in its poetry. ~ Page 125
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