The Sir Philip Sidney Page
( 1554-1586 )
Major Works
Penguin Books publishes a Selected Poems as well as a Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
The Defense of Poesie ( 1580; published, 1595 ). An apology for poetry written in response to an attack on poetry by one Stephen Gosson, whose puritan credentials were not superior to Sidney's own. On Line
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ( 1590 ). Long pastoral romance with a several European antecedents.
Astrophel and Stella ( 1591 ). Sidney himself is Astrophel, 'Starlover.' This sonnet sequence was written in praise of Penelope Devereux.
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About Sidney
John Buxton, Sir Philip Sidney and the English Renaissance. 2nd. Edition.St Martin's, 1966.
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Sir Philip Sidney, Courtier Poet. Yale, 1991.
Kenneth Myrick, Sir Philip Sidney as a Literary Craftsman. Nebraska, 1965.
James M. Osborn, Young Philip Sidney, 1572-1577. Yale, 1972.
Mona Wilson, Sir Philip Sidney. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1950.
Sir Philip Sidney. At the Luminarium.
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