Unit 4 · Literary Criticism and Theory English · December 2022 (Shift 2)

Which of the following statements about Sidney and Gosson are correct?
A. Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry.
B. It was a counterblast to Gosson's The Schoole of Abuse.
C. Gosson wrote in the euphuistic style.
D. Sidney's style was neoclassically restrained.
E. Both wrote in the eighteenth century.

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Correct answer: A. A, B and C only

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Gosson's Schoole of Abuse (1579), dedicated to Sidney unasked and written in Lyly's euphuistic manner, provoked the Apology (c. 1580; pub. 1595). Sidney's prose is ornate Renaissance rhetoric, and both are Elizabethans.

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Which of the following statements about Sidney and Gosson are correct?A. Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry.B. It was a counterblast to Gosson's The Schoole of Abuse.C. Gosson wrote in the euphuistic style.D. Sidney's style was neoclassically restrained.E. Both wrote in the eighteenth century.

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Which of the following statements about Sidney and Gosson are correct?
A. Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry.
B. It was a counterblast to Gosson's The Schoole of Abuse.
C. Gosson wrote in the euphuistic style.
D. Sidney's style was neoclassically restrained.
E. Both wrote in the eighteenth century.