...heavenly Psalme of mercie well testifieth. By these therefore examples and reasons, I thinke it may be manifest, that the Poet with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually then any other Art doth. And so a conclusion not unfitly ensue, that as vertue is the most excellet...

...notion' of philosophy and the 'particuler example ' of history, he can say proudly : I thinke it may be manifest, that the Poet with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more eflfectually then any other Art doth. And so a conclusion not unfitly ensue, that as vertue is the...

...WRITING OF VERSE FLORENCE WILLIAMS "It is manifest," says Sir Philip Sidney, "that the poet, with the hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth. The poet is the food for the tenderest stomach." If poetry cannot be taught, surely an appetite for...