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2015 10 25
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Poet: monarch, does not only show the way but also entice people, moving
most convenience to nature
2 proofs: Menenius Agrippa, Nathan the prophet
[THE POETIC KINDS]
"for if severed they be good, the conjunction cannot be hurtful"
pastoral (hedge is lowest), elegiac, iambic, satiric, comic, tragedy, lyric, epic
[ANSWERS TO CHARGES AGAINST POETRY]
refutatio: "a dissolving or wiping away of all such reasons as make against us"
seek praise by dispraising others: deserve they no answer but, instead of laughing at the jest, to
laugh at the jester
greatest scope to scorning: rhyming and versing inseparable commendation, sweet and orderly
best for memory (knowledge)
Four most important imputations:
1 Better spend time in other knowledges
2 Mother of lies
3 Arouses desires
4 Plato banished them out of commonwealth
Answers:
No better knowledge than to teach people virtue
Nothing affirms therefore nothing lies
Man's wit abuseth poetry; being abused doth most harm, then being rightly used doth most good
alleged before poet's writing: no memory is so ancient
Plato condemns the abuse not poetry; a whole sea of positive examples
[POETRY IN ENGLAND]
digressio: rhetorical theory allowed for a digressio following the refutatio, and Sidney's
digressio has itself the form of an oration (contains narration, propositon, division and
confirmation)
Narration: inquire why England, history
less agreeable to idle England, only base men undertake it
Surveying England in his own century, little praise besides Surrey's lyrics, the moralizing
verse narratives of the popular mid-century collection A Mirror for Magistrates, and Spenser's
Shepheardes Calender (rustic he opposes)
Propostion: the very true cause of our wanting estimation is want of desert
Division: divides into matter and words
matter: 3 wings: art, imitation, exercise forebackwardly;
absurdity1: disobey "three unities"
place; time: 1. feign a new matter; 2. be told than be shown; 3.
come to one principal point
absurdity 2: mingling kings and clowns, tragedy and comedy
difference btw laughter and delight
words: 3 criticisms: 1. exotic; 2. excessive alliteration; 3. sterile
advocate for absorbing and attentive translation; oratory
Confirmation: English capable of excellent exercising
answer objections: 1. mingled; 2. void of grammar
two sorts of versifying: ancient and modern, both fit
[CONCLUSION]
peroratio: though it includes a brief recapitulation of arguments, the main function of the
peroration is, like that of the exordium, to work on the audience's feelings, leaving it welldisposed toward the speaker and the speaker's client
a mock conjuration and a playful curse: yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all
poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor for lacking skill of a sonnet; and,
when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph