Footnote:
{1} Edward Wotton, elder brother of Sir Henry Wotton. He was knighted by Elizabeth in 1592, and made ptroller of her Household.
Observe the playfulness in Sidneys opening and close of a treatise written throughout in plain, manly English without Euphuism, and strictly reasoned.
{2} Here the introdu ends, and the argument begins with its Part 1. Poetry the first Light-giver.
{3} A fable from the "Hetamythium" of Laurentius Abstemius, Professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo uhe Pontificate of Alexander VI. (1492-1503).
{4} Pliny says ("Nat. Hist.," lib. xi., cap. 62) that the young vipers, impatient to be born, break through the side of their mother, and so kill her.
{5} Part 2. Borrowed from by Philosophers.
{6} Timaeus, the Pythagorean philosopher of Locri, and the Athenian Critias are represented by Plato as having listeo the discourse of Socrates on a Republic. Socrates calls oo show such a state in a. Critias will tell of the rescue of Europe by the a citizens of Attica, 10,000 years before, from an inroad of tless invaders who came from the vast island of Atlantis, in the Western O; a struggle of which record reserved iemple of Naith or Athe Sais, i, and handed down, through Solon, by family tradition to Critias. But first Timaeus agrees to expound the structure of the universe; then Critias, in a piece left unfinished by Plato, proceeds to show an ideal society in a against pressure of a dahat seems irresistible.
{7} Platos "Republic," book ii.
{8} Part 3. Borrowed from by Historians.
{9} Part 4. Honoured by the Romans as Sacred and Prophetic.
{10} Part 5. And really sacred and propheti the Psalms of David.
{11} Part 6. By the Greeks, Poets were honoured with the name of Makers.
{12} Poetry is the one creative art. Astronomers and others repeat what they find.
{13} Poets improve Nature.
{14} And idealize man.
{15} Here a Sed Part of the Essay begins.
{16} Part 1. Poetry defined.
{17} Part 2. Its kinds. a. Divine.
{18} Philosophical, which is perhaps too imitative.
{19} Marcus Manilius wrote uiberius a metrical treatise on Astronomy, of which five books on the fixed stars remain.
{20} Poetry proper. {21} Part 3. Subdivisions of Poetry proper.
{22} Its essence is ihought, not in apparelling of verse.
{23} Heliodorus was Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly, and lived in the fourth tury. His story of Theagenes and Chariclea, called the "AEthiopica," was a romantic tale in Greek which was, in Elizabeths reign, translated into English.
{24} The Poets Work and Parts. Part 1. WORK: oetry does for us.
{25} Their clay lodgings - "Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we ot hear it." (Shakespeare, "Mert of Venice," act v., sc. 1) {26} Poetry best advahe end of all earthly learning, virtuous a.
{27} Its advantage herein over Moral Philosophy.
{28} Its advantage herein over History.
{29} "All men make faults, and even I in this, Authorising thy trespass with pare." Shakespeare, "So" 35.
{30} "Witness of the times, light of truth, life of memory, mistress of life, messenger of antiquity."--Cicero, "De Oratore."
{31} In what mahe Poet goes beyond Philosopher, Historian, and all others (bating parison with the Divine).