What does literary criticism mean Literary criticism means criticizing a piece of literature for explaining or evaluating it and highlighting its good and bad points An Apology for Poetry This book was written in late or And this book was published in nbsp Some of the major literary works of Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella that is a sonnet sequence Arcadia which is a prose An Apology for Poetry or The Defense of Poetry that is a literary criticism nbsp Sir Philip Sidney divides this Essay into three main parts and shows the place of poetry above all So in short we did not know point to point First part or division para - In the first division we get the following contains for learning Sidney offers a general defense of poetry as the earliest form of literature Poetry is an imitation of nature and yet transcending nature Poetry