...accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he 2s cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...

...imagines nothing more enchanting or more powerful than the charm of poetical prose stories, " any of which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." Their attraction has something superior, divine ; for, he adds with a depth of emotion that appears...

...accompanied with, or prepared for the well inchaunting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he commeth unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (1595: Eiv). Berowne himself adapts the topic to characterize Boyet's charm with the ladies, attributing...

...pleasure, entices the reader to enter the poet's realm of fantasy: "with a tale forsooth he commeth vnto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." "Pretending no more" than a tale, the poet "doth intend the winning of the mind from wickednesse to...

...considerable agreement among writers, musicians and critics that if the poet 'cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with,...prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music'," then he will offer a particular kind of poem. Bruce Pattison Expresses this standard view: Sixteenth-century...

...theater. This appeal is mysterious, but an obvious part of the lure of, in Sir Philip Sidney's words, "a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner" is the promise of action. But it is action of a special kind — interior action — that entices....

...poet, 'a right popular philosopher' ( 17) . The poet to Sidney is the monarch of all human sciences. 'With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (21-2). By poetry men learn philosophy the sweetest and homeliest way, as in Northanger Abbey, one...

...points to the power of prose fiction, Sidney famously stresses the power of narrative over its hearers: 'with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (p. 92). Prose fiction's vivid narratives will move those to virtue who would be left indifferent by...

...Anglo-Irish satirist See Burton on ARISTOCRACY; Agar on SNOBBERY; Burke, Chesterton on TRADITION Anecdotes With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) English poet, critic, soldier The history of a soldier's wound beguiles...

...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. The Defence of Poesie is a defence of the imaginative life, of the duty, and the delight, of the individual...