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CRITICISM &
SIDNEY
Renaissance
The
period from around the fourteenth until the midseventeenth century has conventionally been named the
Renaissance.
It refers to the rebirth or rediscovery of the values, ethics,
and styles of classical Greece and Rome.
The term was devised by Italian humanists who sought to
reaffirm their own continuity with the classical humanist
heritage after an interlude of over a thousand years.
Renaissance
The
Renaissance Humanism
The most dominant trait has conventionally been identified
as humanism.
The term humanism implies a world view and a set of
values centered around the human rather than the divine
According to the humanists, the human nature can be selfdefined rather than referring this to God.
Humanim focuses on human achievements and potential
rather than theological doctrines and dilemmas.
Renaissance Humanism
Renaissance humanism is a more profound shift in
sensibility, from a broadly other-worldly disposition to a
this-worldly attitude.
This attitude saw actions and events in this world as
significant in their own right without referring them to any
ultimate divine meaning and purpose.
Most of the literary and artistic accomplishments of the
Renaissance were achieved by laymen rather than clergy,
with secular patrons.
Nearly all of the poets of this era were actively involved in
the political process.
Renaissance Humanism
Renaissance Humanism insisted upon a thorough knowledge
of the classical languages: not only Latin, but also Greek.
The humanists also insisted on the direct study of ancient
texts.
The monopoly of Latin as the language of learned discourse
and literature was undermined, and the rules of grammar and
composition were adapted to theorize about vernacular
tongues.
In general, the humanists emphasized the moral value of
poetry and rhetoric and the worldly achievement.
Renaissance Humanism
The humanist poets not only theorized about the vernacular
but wrote in it and cultivated its elegant expression.
They adapted classical forms to the vernacular, developing
literary forms such as the pastoral, idyll, and romance.
The cultivation of prose in narratives, epistles, and
dialogues was an important achievement of the humanists.
The Renaissance epic reached its height during the
Renaissance.
The humanist tradition was richly expressed in the rise of
English vernacular literature of this period.
The rise of national consciousness during this period was
reflected in the growth of vernacular literature.
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Of all writers under the sun the poet is the least liar.
The Astronomer, the Geometrician, the historian, and others, all
make false statements.
The poet affirms nothing , and therefore never tells lies.
What the poet presents is not fact but fiction embodying truth of an
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The fault lies not with poetry, but with the contemporary abuse of
poetry.
The abuse of poetry should not lead to a condemnation of poetry
itself.
Poetry is a double edged sword: It can be used badly or well and it
is unwise to abandon any kind of knowledge altogether because of
the possibility of the abuse of it.
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for Sidney, Plato warned men not against poetry but against its
abuse by his contemporary poets who filled the world with wrong
opinions about the gods.
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