Literature · Medieval & Early Modern Literature
A topic within Medieval & Early Modern Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
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Philip Sidney
Argues that poetry surpasses both philosophy and history because it can show virtue rewarded and vice punished in a way neither abstract argument nor mere recorded fact ever manages to.
about 2 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Edmund Spenser
Allegorises the virtues through knights on quest to argue that moral education works best through a fiction complex enough to be imaginatively inhabited rather than a doctrine simply stated.
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