COMPLETE The Defense of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney-mtf

Post by **mightyfelix** » March 19th, 2023, 5:11 pm

Section 1 is PL ok. Thanks for those edits.

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » March 20th, 2023, 8:23 am

The second section of the Defense is online:
https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/defenseofpoesy_02_sidney_128kb.mp3

The third section involves a couple of tricky notes. In one case, I offer the note before the sentence that requires it because interrupting the document at that point does not greatly interfere with continuity, but in the second case I delay the note until later for the same reason, and also because the very brief obscurity is not vital to comprehension but may remain in the reader's mind as a lingering puzzle without having any note at all. I'm sorry that my choice of text must cause you a good deal of scrambling to locate each note and within the note the portion I have chosen to read. It was the use of a heavily annotated text of Horace that induced me to abandon Latin and major instead in English. You have my sympathy.

https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/defenseofpoesy_03_sidney_128kb.mp3

Tom

Post by **mightyfelix** » March 24th, 2023, 7:31 pm

Section 2 PL ok. No time for the next one tonight.

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » March 25th, 2023, 5:29 am

Moving right along. The next one, although long, is fun.

Tom

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » March 26th, 2023, 7:23 am

The final installment can be found here: https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/defenseofpoesy_04_sidney_128kb.mp3.

Tom

Post by **mightyfelix** » March 26th, 2023, 7:09 pm

Great! I will aim to finish PLing this week. Most likely Thursday.

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » March 27th, 2023, 7:03 am

We're finishing on schedule or almost. I'll be half-way home on Thursday, and when I get there on Apr. 1, I'll check in. Next on my agenda is Burroughs's Master Mind of Mars!

Tom

Post by **mightyfelix** » March 30th, 2023, 8:44 pm

Section 3 PL ok. The rest tomorrow!

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » March 31st, 2023, 5:12 am

Thanks!

Post by **mightyfelix** » April 2nd, 2023, 3:01 pm

I did have a chance to PL on Friday, but I got pulled away and couldn't post until now that section 4 is PL ok!

I will get to work on cataloguing.

Post by **mightyfelix** » April 2nd, 2023, 3:02 pm

I see that you have given an updated description. Do you also want to add any keywords?

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » April 2nd, 2023, 8:29 pm

I don't remember what key words I proposed when I began, but I knew what the essay was about, so I probably hit the main points.

Thanks for your patient work and for helping me find a text I could live with.

I'm going to post this in the cover art thread: "The ZIP file for Project 18997, The Defense of Poesy, is here: https://librivox.org/uploads/covers/Project_18997_defenseofpoesy_2326.zip." Wish me luck.

Tom

Post by **mightyfelix** » April 3rd, 2023, 3:51 pm

You didn't give any when you posted the project, which is why I ask if you want to add them now. It's not required, however.

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » April 3rd, 2023, 5:27 pm

Golly, then by all means yes.

Tom

chymocles · Post by **chymocles** » April 3rd, 2023, 7:37 pm

So what happened to the little window where I was prompted to write key words? Can you retrieve it for me?

Tom