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Which two writers have written essays on the defence of poetry ?

(a) Sir Philip Sidney (b) P. B. Shelley (c) Dr. Mathew Arnold (d) T. S. Eliot Choose the correct option :

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    Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan poet wrote An Apology for Poetry in 1580 that was published posthumously in 1595. It was written in response to the School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson who made charges on poetry as Poetry is the waste of time, Poetry is mother of lies, it is nurse of abuse and supported that Plato had rightly banished the poets from his ideal world.
    P B Shelley wrote critical essay Defence of Poetry in 1821 that was published posthumously in 1821. It was written in response to Thomas Love Peacock's article the Four Ages of Poetry. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

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