Reviews

Deffensa de la Poesia: A 17th Century Anonymous Spanish Translation of Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesie by Benito Brancaforte

fremilyeeman's review against another edition

2.0

A very self indulgent treatise, but one I managed to find some pleasure reading as I write poetry myself. Perhaps it lacks self awareness in its arrogance, or perhaps it is just bad irony, all the same, it was fun to read. Most of it lacks substance, and of course I can’t agree with his argument that poetry requires a ‘proper’ subject (like idk high ranking soldiers and rich people) in order to be brilliant, but I’ll say it again, a fun read.