Sir Philip Sidney / edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones.
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 helps to create a complete picture of Sidney the m...
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| Other title: | Works. Selections. 1989. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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| Series: | Oxford authors.
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| Summary: | 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 helps to create a complete picture of Sidney the man, and a generous assemblage of supplementary texts illustrates his inventiveness as a royal entertainer and describes the literary cult that grew up around him after his sudden death in 1586. |
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| Item Description: | Selections from the writings of Sir Philip Sidney. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 416 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-410) and index. |