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  • Allen, M. J. B. "Sidney's Defense and the Image Making of Plato's Sophist." Sir Philip Sidney's Achievements. Allen, M. J. B., ed., Baker-Smith, Dominic, ed., Kinney, Arthur F., ed., Sullivan, Margaret, ed. New York: AMS, 1990. Rhetoric and Plato in the Defence.
  • Attridge, Derek. "Puttenham's Perplexity: Nature, Art, and the Supplement in Renaissance Poetic Theory." Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts. Parker, Patricia, ed., Quint, David (ed. & introd.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986. George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie, the Defence, and deconstructionist theory.
  • Bergvall, Ake. The "Enabling of Judgement": Sir Philip Sidney and the Education of the Reader. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1989, (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 70). The Defence, Plato, Augustine, Aristotle, epistemology and instruction theory.
  • Berry, Edward. "The Poet as Warrior in Sidney's Defence of Poetry." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 1989 Winter v29(1). 21-34. Polemics as literary warfare and the poet as the exemplary warrior.
  • Bogdan, Deanne. "Sidney's Defence of Plato and the 'Lying' Greek Poets: The Argument from Hypothesis." Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly. 1986 Fall v7(1), 43-54. Sidney's understanding of Plato's poetics. Coogan, Robert M. "More Dais Than Dock: Greek Rhetoric and Sidney's Encomium on Poetry." Studies in the Literary Imagination 1982 Spring v15(1), 99-113. Defence as an instance of Classical rhetoric in action.
  • ________________. "The Triumph of Reason: Sidney's Defense and Aristotle's Rhetoric." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature. 1981 Summer v17(3), 255-270. Sidney and Aristotelian epideictic rhetoric.
  • DeNeef, A. Leigh. "Opening and Closing the Sidneian Text."Sidney Newsletter 1981 v2(1), 3-6. Textual criticism and Defence.
  • Devereux, James A. "The Meaning of Delight in Sidney's Defence of Poesy." Studies in the Literary Imagination. 1982 Spring v15(1), 85-97.
  • Doherty, M. J. The mistress-knowledge: Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie and Literary Architectonics in the English Renaissance. Nashville: VUP 1991. Includes bibliography. Sidney and epistemology.
  • Dorsten, Jan van. "How Not to Open the Sidneian Text." Sidney Newsletter 1981 v2(2), 4-7. A reply to DeNeef on textual criticism of the Defence.
  • Duncan-Jones, Katherine, and Jan Van Dorsten. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney. Oxford: Clarendon, 1973. This prose anthology includes a nicely annotated Defence with an outline of its encomiastic structure and marginalia to help keep the outline in mind.
  • _______________________. Sir Philip Sidney. Oxford: OUP, 1989. This is the most useful of the many anthologies of Sidney's poetry and prose. A volume in the Oxford Authors series, its notes are comprehensive.
  • Dundas, Judith. "'To speak metaphorically': Sidney in the Subjunctive Mood." Renaissance Quarterly 1988 Summer v41(2), 268-287. Defence and metaphor.
  • Fargnoli, Joseph. "Patterns of Renaissance Imagination in Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie." Massachusetts Studies in English 1982 v8(3), 36-42. Renaissance theories of the imagination and the Defence.
  • Ferguson, Margaret W. Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry. New Haven: YUP, 1983. Studies of Defence and similar works: Du Bellay, Tasso.
  • Fonesca, Terezinha A. The 'Correlitiue Knowledge of Thinges': Relations and Intertextuality in 'Astrophil and Stella' and 'A Defence of Poetry'. Diss. Abs. 1989 Apr. v49(10), 3032A.
  • Hamilton, A. C. "Sidney's Humanism." Sir Philip Sidney's Achievements. Allen, M. J. B., ed., Baker-Smith, Dominic, ed., Kinney, Arthur F., ed. Sullivan, Margaret, ed. New York: AMS, 1990. Defence as late Renaissance document.
  • ______________. Sir Philip Sidney: a Study of His Life and Works. Cambridge: CUP, 1977. A standard biography and literary introduction.
  • Heninger, S. K., Jr. "'Metaphor' and Sidney's Defence of Poesie." John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne. 1982 v1(1-2), 117-149. Mimesis and metaphor, Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric, and the Defence.
  • ___________________. "Sidney and Boethian Music" SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1983 Winter v23(1), 37-46. Boethius, Plato, Aristotle, mimesis, and Defence.
  • ___________________. "Sidney and Serranus' Plato." English Literary Renaissance. 1983 Spring v13(2), 146-161. The Defence and Plato, Serres, Estienne, and translation. See also: 27-44 in Sidney in Retrospect: Selections from English Literary Renaissance. Kinney, Arthur F., ed.. Amherst: UMP; 1988.
  • ___________________. "Speaking Pictures: Sidney's Rapprochement between Poetry and Painting." Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture: The Poet in His Time and in Ours: A Collection of Critical and Scholarly Essays. Waller, Gary F., ed., Moore, Michael D., ed. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1984. The Defence, Aristotle's Poetics, and critical theory.
  • Herman, Peter C. "'Do As I Say, Not As I Do': The Apology for Poetry and Sir Philip Sidney's Letters to Edward Denny and Robert Sidney." Sidney Newsletter 1989 v10(1), 13-24. Sidney's poetics reflects humanistic education, especially as touching upon morality. Correspondence shows the same influence.
  • Hunt, John. "Allusive Coherence in Sidney's Apology for Poetry." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 1987 Winter v27(1), 1-16. Coherence and ambiguity in the Defence.
  • Hunter, C. Stuart. "Erected Wit and Infected Will: Sidney's Poetic Theory and Poetic Practice." Sidney Newsletter 1984 Fall-Winter v5(2), 3-10. The Defence and Astrophil and Stella.
  • Kimbrough, Robert. Sir Philip Sidney. New York: Twayne, 1971. A volume in the Twayne English Authors series. Biography, literary history, criticism. With annotated bibliography.
  • Kouwenhoven, Jan Karel. "Sidney, Leicester, and The Faerie Queene." Sir Philip Sidney: 1586 and the Creation of a Legend. Dorsten, Jan van, ed. Baker-Smith, Dominic (ed. & pref.) Kinney, Arthur F. (ed. & pref.) Leiden: Brill, 1986. Discusses connection between Defence and Sidney's partisanship with Leicester at Court.
  • Martin, Christopher. "Sidney's Defence: The Art of Slander and the Slander of Art." Sidney Newsletter 1988 v9(1) p3-10. The encomium as polemics.
  • Miller, Anthony. "Sidney's Apology for Poetry and Plutarch's Moralia." English Literary Renaissance 1987 Autumn v17(3), 259-276. Plutarch as a source in French.
  • Myrick, Kenneth O. Sir Philip Sidney as a Literary Craftsman. Cambridge, MA: HUP, 1935. The classic study of Sidney and Castiglione.
  • Payne, Paula H. "Aristotle's Rhetoric: 'Matter' and 'Manner' in Sidney's Sonnet Sequence, Astrophil and Stella, and in His Defence of Poesie." Diss Abs. 1988 Aug. v49(2), 260A.
  • ______________. "Tracing Aristotle's Rhetoric in Sir Philip Sidney's Poetry and Prose." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 1990 Summer v20(3). 241-250, The Rhetoric in both the Defence and in Astrophil and Stella.
  • Pears, Stewart A., ed. The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet. London: Pickering, 1845. Continental humanists continued in the tradition of Erasmus in guiding the bright stars of English literature, as exemplified by Languet's friendship with Sidney.
  • Prescott, Anne L. "King David as a 'Right Poet': Sidney and the Psalmist." English Literary Renaissance 1989 Spring v19(3), 131-151. The Book of Psalms and Sidney's poetics.
  • Qiu, Zihua. "The Aesthetic Manifesto of English Humanism: On Sidney's Defence of Poesie." Foreign Lit. Studies. 1986 Mar. v31(1), 9,49-54. China. Defence as a document of the Renaissance humanist tradition.
  • Raitiere, Martin N. "The Unity of Sidney's Apology for Poetry." SEL: Studies in English Literature. 1981 Winter v21(1), 37-57.
  • Reichert, John. "Do Poets Ever Mean What They Say?" New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation. 1981 Autumn v8(1), 53-68. How literary conventions mask the power gestures of authors.
  • Robinson, Forrest G. The Shape of Things Known; Sidney's Apology in its Philosophical Tradition. Cambridge, MA: HUP, 1972. Sidney and epistemology.
  • Schleiner, Louise. "Spenser and Sidney on the Vaticinium." Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual. 1985 v6, 129-45. The Shepheardes Calender and the Defence on vaticinium.
  • Sidney, Sir Philip. The Defense of Poesie. London: Ponsonby, 1595. Reprinted in facsimile by The Scolar Press, Menston, 1968. Used for the present edition.
  • __________________. The Norwich Sidney Manuscript: The Apology for Poetry. Mahl, Mary R., ed. Northridge, CA: SFVSC, 1969. This is the official transcription of the famous Sidney manuscript that was found in 1960, mis-shelved as "A Treatise of Horseman Shipp." While not holograph, nor even of so early date as the Ponsonby edition, it was copied from another ms., possibly from Sidney's original, and is of great value to scholarship.
  • _________________.Prose works. Feuillerat, Albert, ed. Cambridge: CUP, 1962. 4 vols. (First edition appeared 1912-26). Useful as primary source.
  • __________________. The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt. London: 1724-1725. 3 vols. A standard collection from days gone by.
  • Sinfield, Alan. "The Cultural Politics of the Defence of Poetry." Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture: The Poet in His Time and in Ours: A Collection of Critical and Scholarly Essays. Waller, Gary F., ed., Moore, Michael D., ed. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1984. Pagan literature and Puritanism.
  • Gerald. "Dissociation of Sensibility and the Apology for Poetry in the Twentieth Century." Studies in the Literary Imagination 1982 Spring v15(1), 115-128. Eliot, New Criticism, and Sidney.
  • Donald V. "Sidney's Concept of Tragedy in the Apology and in the Arcadia." Studies in Philology. 1982 Winter v79(2), 41-61. Aristotle, the Arcadia, George Buchanan, tragedy and comedy.
  • Ulreich, John C., Jr. "'The Poets Only Deliver': Sidney's Conception of Mimesis." Studies in the Literary Imagination. 1982 Spring v15(1), 67-84. The failure of the literal and its inevitable absorption into the mimetic and metaphorical.
  • Voss, A. E. "The 'Right Poet' in Astrophil and Stella." Unisa English Studies: Journal of the Department of English 1986 Sept. v24(2), 7-10. Defence and Astrophil and Stella.
  • Wallace, Malcolm. W. The Life of Sir Philip Sidney. Cambridge: CUP, 1915. Still the standard biography. Sympathetic, but with a minimum of the enthusiast's distortion.
  • Webster, John. William Temple's Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry. Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 32. 1984. Discussion of Sir William Temple's Analysis Tractationis de Poesi Contextae a Nobilissimo Viro Philippe Sidneio Equite Aurato.
  • Weiner, Andrew D. "Sidney, Protestantism, and Literary Critics: Reflections on Some Recent Criticism of The Defense of Poetry." Sir Philip Sidney's Achievements. Allen, M. J. B., ed., Baker-Smith, Dominic, ed. Kinney, Arthur F., ed., Sullivan, Margaret, ed. New York: AMS, 1990. The continuing influence of Gosson's atitude.
  • ________________. Sir Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Protestantism : a Study of Contexts. Minneapolis, MN: UMP, 1978. Includes bibliography. Puritans and Poetics.
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