"There is no art [but one] delivered to mankind that hath
not the works of Nature for his principal object. . . . Only the poet, disdaining
to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own
invention, doth grow in effect another nature. . . . He nothing affirms, and
therefore never lieth"
(Sir Philip
Sidney, Apologie for Poetry, 1595)
