Abstract
The Defence of Poesie - perhaps surprisingly contains not horse play exactly but something like playfully deliberate and apparent ?horse thought', share a commonality of knowledge and allusion, are both literary and horse-suffused. This chapter examines the Exordium of Sidney's Defence, exploring the ways that elitist concerns with courtly values, the rhetorical strategies involved in diplomacy and in service to and dependence on the monarch and a valorisation of horses and equestrian arts come together in the text, as they did in these significant moments in Sidney's life. Another form of relationship that influenced Sidney to open a discourse on poetry with a mini-essay on managing horses. defence of poetry in a stable with a mini-essay on horsemanship was to bring to mind the Georgics and thence issues of weakening stock and good breeding of beautiful horses, good poetry and good sires and dams, and gentle leadership and sway. Keywords:horse; horsemanship; poetry; rhetorical strategies; Sidney; The Defence of Poesie
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