1752 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. The Defense of Poesy. Rare Second Edition from the 1595 First Edition. Great Awakening 5 x 6 inches

5 x 6 inches

but simply a swap of two State imposed churches

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

Congregational Sabbath-School and Publishing Co

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

1752 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. The Defense of Poesy. Rare Second Edition from the 1595 First Edition. Great Awakening 5 x 6 inchesA 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