According to Sidney, which are the three kinds of poetry?
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Correct answer: B. Religious, philosophical, imaginative (right poets)
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Sidney's three kinds: divine (David's Psalms), philosophical (Lucretius, Virgil's Georgics), and 'right poets' who imitate 'what may be and should be'.
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