[lbo-talk] in which I'm accused of repressing the reptilian brain

[Joanna]

Re: Sidney/
I'd have to go to the library to look it up. But it's a famous passage 
where he defends the poets from the charge of lying.

Joanna

Michael Smith wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2008 17:59:53 Robert Wrubel wrote:
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>> In the 17th century you see the beginnings of that distinction. Bacon 
>> talks about it, as does Sidney in the Defense of Poesy. 
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> I'd be interested to see chapter and verse on this. I like Sidney 
> a lot, and loathe Bacon, but I've read more than I like of the 
> latter, and everything there is of the former, and I don't 
> remember either of them ever sounding like CP Snow.
>
> Could be wrong, of course -- it's been a while. 
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