Question

What are the various objections raised by puritans against poetry?

Answer 1

Sidney wrote this excellent example of Elizabethan prose at a time when poetry was being maligned by various Puritan elements as being responsible for corruption and vice in society. What Sidney does to counter these arguments is to go back in time and look at the role of poetry in building civilisation and how valuable it is. Consider the following quote in which Sidney begins his defence of poetry, and also his attack on those...