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An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance.

Sir Philip Sidney was born on 30th November 1554 at Penshurst Place, Kent.