HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
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We begin to look at Elizabethan literature, as Sidney argues that poetry is superior to philosophy, and philosophy is put to use in Spenser’s "Fairie Queene".
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