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As the Defense progresses Sidney’s rhetorical “proofs” become a model of reading exhibiting his participation (and belief) in a tradition Eliot would later say “must be labored for” and “involves a perception, not only of the past, but of its presence.” Consequently, the Defense, this paper argues, reveals much about Sidney’s counter-historical habit of thinking and the “profitable invention” of the writing community the Defense imagines for England. This essay explores Sidney’s success in enabling this imagined community by reading William Scott’s newly discovered Model of Poesy in dialogue with the Defence to demonstrate that in Scott’s mind, he is working alongside Sidney and incorporating the Defence’s transhistorical reading practices into his Model, thus making use of the English writing available to him that was not available to Sidney. Scott’s writerly disposition, which he learned from Sidney, attaches a new meaning to the Defence, a meaning in which the Defence is a useful document in perpetuating right poetry via right reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
