The Poetic Theory of Philip Sidney

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The aim of this paper is to review poetic theory of the English Renaissance, mainly focusing on Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry. The Apology for Poetry, which is known as the most brilliant piece of aesthetic writing in the Renaissance, reveals the pivotal debate on the existence of literature of the times. The book not only defends the value of poetry but suggests Sidney's poetic theory not as imitating nature but as creating nature. More important is that Sidney's Apology for Poetry is not just a comprehensive synthesis of the poetic theory that takes its origin back to the Classicism. But the book also gives a strong influence on the ideal prototype of poet that the Romantic writers would have envisaged. Among the Romantics, especially Coleridge's concept of creative imagination is analogous to Sidney's wit and his notion of natura naturans, found not in created nature but in creating nature, is similar to Sidney's idea of second nature. Although the idea of creative imagination flourishes in the Romantic period, it is Sidney who opened the way for the growth of human creativity in English Romanticism. Thus it can be said that English Romanticism can draw its theoreitical and philosophical justification on critical theory from the foundation of Sidney's Apology for Poetry.

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