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"To SERVE YOUR PRINCE BY ... AN HONEST DISSIMULATION": THE NEW ARCADIA AS A DEFENSE OF POETRY: SOUTH-CENTRAL RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE LOUIS L. MARTZ ESSAY PRIZE, 2003

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"To SERVE YOUR PRINCE BY ... AN HONEST DISSIMULATION": THE NEW ARCADIA AS A DEFENSE OF POETRY: SOUTH-CENTRAL RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE LOUIS L. MARTZ ESSAY PRIZE, 2003

Alwes, Derek B.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 29 (2): 147 – Dec 2, 2003
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© Copyright 2003 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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HTo SERVE YOUR pruNeE ]BY AN HONEST ][HSSIMULATION~~~ THE NEW ARCADIA AS A DEFENSE OF ]R)ETRY .sOUTJH[-CENTRAlL RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE Loms L MARTZ ESSAY ]pRIZE, 20(3) DEREK B. AiWES ArrHOUGH PHILIP SIDNEy'S letter to his sister prefacing the Old Arcadia registers anxiety about promiscuous dissemination, asking her to limit its circulation to "friends who will weigh errors in the balance of goodwill," he clearly becomes more open to diverse audiences when he revises his great romance (3).1 In the letter, Sidney distinguishes between forgiving "friends" and the "severer eyes" to whom he does not wish to expose his work, but in his Defence of Poetry (which he probably wrote as he was finishing the Old Arcadia or shortly after completing it) he implicitly identifies a different pair of alternative audiences based not on their relationship to him but on their relationship to "poetry"-those who actively engage a text and "use the narration but as an imaginative ground-plot of a profitable invention" (DP 103), and those who are seduced by the pleasures of the text "ere themselves be aware, as if they took a medicine of cherries" (DP 93).2 It is this shift in Sidney's attitude toward his audiences that

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