Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the University of Warwick. She served as Head of Department from 2009 to 2014. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and prizes, including a Solmsen Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (OUP, 2013).

...wittily titled and thoroughly contrary...This is a fine book....In one sense, Bates has written perhaps the first book in defence of Sidney's defence...Yet her ingenious buttressing of the Defence's weak spots comes under the guise of an attack...If this constitutes a paradox, it is...the kind of paradox that Sidney might, despite himself, have admired.

• Part One: The Poet's Golden World I: Poetry is Profitless II: Poetry is Profitable III: Poetry is Profitless Part Two: The Counterfeiter I: Poetry Lies II: Lies are Profitable III: Lies are Profitless IV: Poetry is Profitless V: Poetry is Free The Empty Chest I: Poetry Abuses II: Poetry is Useful III: Poetry is Abused Bibliography Index

Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the University of Warwick. She served as Head of Department from 2009 to 2014. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and prizes, including a Solmsen Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (OUP, 2013).

...wittily titled and thoroughly contrary...This is a fine book....In one sense, Bates has written perhaps the first book in defence of Sidney's defence...Yet her ingenious buttressing of the Defence's weak spots comes under the guise of an attack...If this constitutes a paradox, it is...the kind of paradox that Sidney might, despite himself, have admired.

• Part One: The Poet's Golden World I: Poetry is Profitless II: Poetry is Profitable III: Poetry is Profitless Part Two: The Counterfeiter I: Poetry Lies II: Lies are Profitable III: Lies are Profitless IV: Poetry is Profitless V: Poetry is Free The Empty Chest I: Poetry Abuses II: Poetry is Useful III: Poetry is Abused Bibliography Index

Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the University of Warwick. She served as Head of Department from 2009 to 2014. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and prizes, including a Solmsen Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (OUP, 2013).

...wittily titled and thoroughly contrary...This is a fine book....In one sense, Bates has written perhaps the first book in defence of Sidney's defence...Yet her ingenious buttressing of the Defence's weak spots comes under the guise of an attack...If this constitutes a paradox, it is...the kind of paradox that Sidney might, despite himself, have admired.

• Part One: The Poet's Golden World I: Poetry is Profitless II: Poetry is Profitable III: Poetry is Profitless Part Two: The Counterfeiter I: Poetry Lies II: Lies are Profitable III: Lies are Profitless IV: Poetry is Profitless V: Poetry is Free The Empty Chest I: Poetry Abuses II: Poetry is Useful III: Poetry is Abused Bibliography Index