English Literature / Unit 19 ENL 1802 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sidney: Poetry Teaches and Delights
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The idea
Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, as unit six taught, answers attacks on poetry as immoral, especially Plato's banishing of poets. It argues that poetry teaches and delights, giving light through beauty, so that right thought leads to right action.
In practice
To teach and to delight.
Where people slip
Sidney answers Plato.
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