title: Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics)
author: Various
description: <b>Gavin Alexander </b>is a<b></b>University Assistant Lecturer in English &amp; Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and has written on the Sidney family and circle and the literary response to him.
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  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Copyright
  What Is Literary Criticism?
  For All Time?
  Aesthetics vs Morality
  Learning through Imitation
  The Critic as Chameleon
  A (Very) Brief History of Literary Criticism
  The Theory of Forms
  The Three Unities
  Catharsis
  Defenders of Poetry: Sidney and Shelley
  Pope’s Criticism
  Ancients and Moderns
  Neoclassicism
  The English Civil War and Literary Battle Lines
  The Romantic Individual
  Coleridge and Wordsworth: Romanticizing English Literature
  The Function of Criticism
  The Development of “English Literature” as