Philip Sidney
1.Which two writers have written essays on the defence of poetry?
(a) Sir Philip Sidney
(b) P. B. Shelley
(C) Mathew Arnold
(d) T. S. Eliot
Choose the correct option :
l. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
Answer: 4
2.What, in sum, is Sidney’s point in the following? “Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivets, fruitless trees, sweet—smelling flowers, not what so ever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden” (Philip Sidney)
1. Works of art are superior to the natural world they represent
2. Works of art can often compete with the natural world represented by them
3. Neither the poets nor the natural world they set forth equal nature’s rich tapestry
4. The natural world is far superior to the works of art that represent it
Answer: 1
3.Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to
(A) Plato’s Republic
(B) Aristotle’s Poetics
(C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse
(D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.
Answer: C
4.______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror
Answer: (B)
5.What does Philip Sidney call poet-haters in his Defence of Poesie ?
1. Misogynists
2. Misanthropes
3. Misnomers
4. Mysomousoi
Answer: 4
6.What unique distinction does Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” have in the English literary canon ?
1. It is the only distinguished poem in English addressed to the Lords of Penshurst.
2. It celebrates Philip Sidney’s elevation to knighthood, Sidney being the youngest scion of the family.
3. It is one of the first English poems celebrating a specific place, a forerunner to Cooper’s Hill and Windsor Forest.
4. It is the first poem in an elegiac series that late Elizabethan poets began on the demise of the Lord of Penshurst.
Answer: 3
7.Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in __________.
(1) Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
(2) William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
(3) Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
(4) Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Answer: 3
8.Philip Sidney defended poetry against such descriptions of it as “the mother of lies” and “the nurse of abuse.” His main argument here is .
(1) The poet is no conjuror or illusionist and represents a world.
(2) The poet cannot lie because he is not claiming to tell us the truth.
(3) The poet cannot speak the truth because he is not representing the real world.
(4) The poet is a philosopher for whom truth is a lie, and lie truth, in an imaginary
Answer: 2
9.Poetry according to Sir Philip Sidney is of three kinds. They are:
1. religious, dramatic, romantic
2. classical, romantic, neo-classical
3. philosophical, imaginative, narrative
4. religious, philosophical, imaginative
Answer: 4
10.Which two of the following poets defended poetry against Plato’s denigration of Poetry ?
(A) John Dryden
(B) PB Shelley
(C) T.S. Eliot
(D) Philip Sidney
Answer: D
11.Who among the following refutes Plato’s charge that poets are liars , by arguing that the poet ” nothing affirms , and therefore never lieth ” ?
a. John Dryden
b. Philip Sidney
c. George Puttenham
d. Richard liooko
Answer: b