...creativity; for Sidney divine inspiration aids Uie poet to transcend nature: Onely the Poet, disdayning to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his owne inuention, dooth growe in effect another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth...

...heterocosm independent of nature's world. Such a poet, he declares in a celebrated passage in the Defence, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect into an other nature: in making things either better then nature bringeth foorth, or quite a new, formes...

..."literature" was at least for some Renaissance thinkers denoted by the term "poesy": Only the poet ..., lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or quite anew, forms such...

...remarkably unstable." At first, as Dolan writes, Sidney genders poetry as masculine and nature as feminine: "Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such...the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature . . . ; so as he goeth hand in hand with nature, not enclosed with the narrow warrant...

...hat der Dichter nicht die Materie oder die Natur, also ein ihn Bewegendes, zu seiner Voraussetzung: Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better...

...where he contrasts the work of the poet with that of any professional who is bound to nature as it is: Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect another Nature, in making things either better than...

...distinguishes it from all the other arts and sciences, which in the last analysis merely 'follow Nature', while only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted with the vigour of his own invention, doth growth in effect another nature, in making things either...

...imitation. In Sir Philip Sydney, The Defense of Poetry (1595; Lincoln, Nebr., 1970), p. 9, we read, eg, "Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such...subjection lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, does grow in effect into another nature in making things either better than nature brings forth or,...

...hath not the works of nature for his principal object" and on the way to his famous declaration that [o]nly the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature ... [so that] he goeth hand in hand...

...or the Defence of Poesy, ed. G. Shepherd, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1973, pp. 100-8 Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better...