1752 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. The Defense of Poesy. Rare Second Edition from the 1595 First Edition. Great Awakening Enter Richard Baxter's beautifully Christocentric

Enter Richard Baxter's beautifully Christocentric [but unfortunately titled]

Good minus copy

London: Alexander McAulay

"Quit Your Meanness" became a rallying call for a sort of rugged version of Wesley's "Pure Love" doctrine

1752 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. The Defense of Poesy. Rare Second Edition from the 1595 First Edition. Great Awakening Enter Richard Baxter's beautifully ChristocentricA very finely preserved example of the second separate edition of Sir Philip Sidney's [1554 1586] influential "Defense of Poesy." The first edition, 1595, is the first English language articulation and defense of the value of poetry as contrasted with philosophy and theology. He argues that while philosophy, theology, and the sciences may inform, it belongs to poetry to inflame the heart, building heat that leads to movement and motion; thus, poetry