Selected Works
Published on 1. September 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
441 pages
978-0-19-282024-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of selections from the writings of Sir Philip Sidney includes the whole of his sonnet sequence "Astrophil and Stella", his "Defence of Poesy", his "Certain Sonnets" and substantial parts of both versions of the "Arcadia". A selection of letters fills out the picture of Sidney the man and supplementary texts illustrate both his inventiveness as a royal entertainer and the literary cult which grew up around him after his sudden death in 1586. Katherine Duncan-Jones has also edited "Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney" and "The Old Arcadia".
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 120 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-282024-2 (9780192820242)
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Persons
Content
A dialogue between two shepherds, uttered in a pastoral show at Wilton; two songs for an Accession Day tilt; "Philisides, The Shepherd Good and True"; "Sing, Neighbours, Hear You Not Say "; "The Lady of May"; "Certain Sonnets; "The Lad Philisides"; "The Old Arcadia"; "Lamon's Tale"; "Astrophil and Stella"; "The Defence of Poesy"; "The New Arcadia"; psalms; letters. Appendices: "A Brief Declaration of the Shows Performed before the Queen's Majesty and the French Ambassadors", Henry Goldwell; "A Historical Remembrance of the Sidneys", Edmund Molyneux; "The Manner of Sir Philip Sidney's Death", Anon; three elegies on Sidney from "The Phoenix Nest" 1593; extract from Fulke Greville, "The Life of Sir Philip Sidney" 1633.