Poetrie

• And Firteus the Poet being also a lame man & halting vpon one legge, was chosen by the Oracle of the gods from the Athenians to be generall of the Lacedemonians armie, not for his Poetrie, but for his wisedome and graue perswasions, and subtile Stratagemes whereby he had the victory ouer his enemies. —  The Arte of English Poesie
• His Apologie for Poetrie is a meritorious piece of early criticism. —  Halleck's New English Literature
• The Apologie for Poetrie (1595), generally called the Defense of Poesie_, appeared in answer to a pamphlet by Stephen Gosson called The School of Abuse (1579), in which the poetry of the age and its unbridled pleasure were denounced with Puritan thoroughness and conviction. —  English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World
• [397 A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) by the laborious but uninspired tutor, William Webbe,[398] is not a defense; but interspersed among his remarks advocating the reformed versifying, and his arid catalog of poets, ancient and modern, is a good deal about the moral purpose and value of poetry. —  Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism
• The omission by Milton here of such English books as Sir Philip Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie (1595) and Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (1589) is a striking instance of his resolute non-regard of everything English.] —  The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649

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