Abstract
IN A RECENT ARTICLE E. R. Gregory challenged A. C. Hamilton's statement that Philip Sidney did not sympathize with poetry, which takes as its direct and exclusive subject biblical story and the praise of God, or with the attitudes of its most famous advocate, the contemporary French Huguenot poet Du Bartas.1 Gregory pointed out that Sidney translated forty-three psalms and Du Bartas' La Premiere Sepmaine (this translation is lost) and that several remarks in the Defence of Poetry indicate respect for divine poetry. This, Sidney says, would be the best use we could make of the lyric,
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