Who is the writer of 'An Apologie for Poetrie'?

• Sir Philip Sidney, is the writer of 'An Apologie for Poetrie'
- এটি হচ্ছে একটি literary criticism অর্থাৎ সাহিত্য সমালোচনা মূলক  বই।
- ১৫৮২ সালে লেখা এবং ১৫৯৫ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।
- Considered the finest work of Elizabethan literary criticism, Sidney’s elegant essay suggests that literature is a better teacher than history or philosophy, and it masterfully refutes Plato’s infamous decision to ban poets from the state in his Republic.

• Sir Philip Sedney Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day.
• His famous work:
- Astrophel and Stella (is considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle)
- Arcadia (1590), a book that bears the embryo of the English novel.
- After Shakespeare’s sonnets, Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella is considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle.

Source: An ABC OF English Literature by Dr. M. Mofizar Rahman and Britannica and Britannica.