1752 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. The Defense of Poesy. Rare Second Edition from the 1595 First Edition. Great Awakening as I recall

as I recall

but simply a swap of two State imposed churches

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The Equal Discharge of Justice

he helped lead the charge of Presbyterian pulpits preaching vocally in favor of the American Revolution and against the repression of the British

1752 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. The Defense of Poesy. Rare Second Edition from the 1595 First Edition. Great Awakening as I recallA very finely preserved example of the second separate edition of Sir Philip Sidney's [1554 1586] influential "Defense of Poesy." The first edition, 1595, is the first English language articulation and defense of the value of poetry as contrasted with philosophy and theology. He argues that while philosophy, theology, and the sciences may inform, it belongs to poetry to inflame the heart, building heat that leads to movement and motion; thus, poetry