An Apology for Poetry
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An Apology for Poetry is Sir Philip Sidney’s influential Elizabethan literary treatise defending the value and moral power of poetry against its contemporary critics.
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| An Apology for Poetry canonical | 2 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Apology for Poetry Context triple: [Sir Philip Sidney, notableWork, An Apology for Poetry]
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A.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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B.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table is an 1872 collection of conversational essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., continuing his popular series of reflective, humorous breakfast-table dialogues.
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C.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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D.
The Anxiety of Influence
The Anxiety of Influence is a seminal work of literary criticism by Harold Bloom that explores how poets are shaped and constrained by the powerful influence of their predecessors.
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E.
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Counter-Attack and Other Poems is a 1918 collection of anti-war poetry by Siegfried Sassoon that vividly depicts the horrors and futility of trench warfare in World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Apology for Poetry Target entity description: An Apology for Poetry is Sir Philip Sidney’s influential Elizabethan literary treatise defending the value and moral power of poetry against its contemporary critics.
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A.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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B.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table is an 1872 collection of conversational essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., continuing his popular series of reflective, humorous breakfast-table dialogues.
-
C.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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D.
The Anxiety of Influence
The Anxiety of Influence is a seminal work of literary criticism by Harold Bloom that explores how poets are shaped and constrained by the powerful influence of their predecessors.
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E.
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Counter-Attack and Other Poems is a 1918 collection of anti-war poetry by Siegfried Sassoon that vividly depicts the horrors and futility of trench warfare in World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defence of poetry
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literary treatise ⓘ work of literary criticism ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
A Defence of Poesie
ⓘ
linked to:
The Defence of Poesy
The Defence of Poesy ⓘ |
| author |
Philip Sidney
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linked to:
Sir Philip Sidney
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| authorName | Sir Philip Sidney ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
defence of the moral value of poetry
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didactic function of poetry ⓘ pleasure and profit as aims of poetry ⓘ superiority of poetry over history and philosophy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| dateWritten | c. 1580 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1595 ⓘ |
| form | prose essay ⓘ |
| genre |
poetics
ⓘ
rhetorical prose ⓘ |
| hasTitleWord |
Apology
ⓘ
Poetry ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Elizabethan literary debates about poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
English Renaissance literary criticism
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Romantic literary theory ⓘ defences of imaginative literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle’s Poetics
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linked to:
Poetics
Horace’s Ars Poetica ⓘ Plato’s dialogues ⓘ
linked to:
Dialogues of Plato
Renaissance humanism ⓘ |
| keyArgument |
poetry is more philosophical and more universal than history
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poetry is not inherently immoral ⓘ poetry moves readers to virtue by delighting and teaching ⓘ the poet is a maker who creates a golden world ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
hierarchy of learning with poetry at the top
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imitation (mimesis) as creative making ⓘ poet as vates (prophet) and maker ⓘ poetry as a combination of delight and instruction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Elizabethan era
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linked to:
English Renaissance
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| literaryTradition | Western poetics ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
aesthetics
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ethics and literature ⓘ literary theory ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| movement | Renaissance humanism ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| settingOfComposition | Elizabethan court culture ⓘ |
| significance |
foundational text in English poetics
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major defence of imaginative literature in English ⓘ one of the earliest works of English literary criticism ⓘ |
| targetAudience | educated Elizabethan readers ⓘ |
| writtenInResponseTo |
Puritan attacks on poetry
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Stephen Gosson’s The Schoole of Abuse ⓘ |
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