 | Derek N. C. Wood - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 286 pages
...only within the zodiac of his own wit ... [these] be they which most properly do imitate to teach and delight, and to imitate borrow nothing of what is,...divine consideration of what may be and should be. Sir Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy 216, 218 Let us turn now from Milton's subtle management of... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...imitate to teach and delight, and to imitate, horrow nothing of what is, hath heen, or shall he: hut range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may he and should he, These he they that as the first and most nohle sort, may justly he termed rntei,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - English poetry - 2002 - 182 pages
...outward beauty of such a virtue. For these third be they which most properly do imitate to teach and delight, and to imitate borrow nothing of what is,...the first and most noble sort may justly be termed vates, so these are waited on in the excellentes! languages and best understandings, with the foredescribed... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 286 pages
...outward beauty of such a vittue. For these thitd be they which most properly do imitate to teach and delight, and to imitate borrow nothing of what is,...discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be 10 and should be. These be they that, as the first and most noble sort may justly be termed vates,... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...itself principally with what he calls "right poets," that is, those poets who in their art of imitation "borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be; but range . . . into the divine consideration of what may be and should be."28 When Coleridge, in the Biographia... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 420 pages
...them' (p. 111). The emphasis is strongly prescriptive; 'right poets' he says, 'imitate to teach and delight, and to imitate borrow nothing of what is,...divine consideration of what may be and should be (p. 102). But if this didacticism is achieved by completely disdaining 'what is, hath been, or shall... | |
 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 280 pages
...1595). 'Imitation' in Platonic terminology can be misleading - theoretically at least the poet will 'to imitate borrow nothing of what is, hath been or shall be' (Sidney). Platonism does not distinguish the arts by media: metaphors from statecraft are used about... | |
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For these third be they which most properly do imitate to teach and delight, and to imitate borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be; but range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be, and should be. 
