Author: Philip SidneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pastoral literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Author: Philip Sidney
Author: Philip SidneySir Philip Sidney
Author: Philip SidneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose, including 'The Defence of Poesy', substantial parts of both versions of the 'Arcadia', and the whole of the sonnet sequence 'Astrophil and Stella'.
Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640
Author: H. R. WoudhuysenPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191591025
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
This is the first modern study of the production and circulation of manuscripts during the English Renaissance. H.R. Woudhuysen examines the relationship between manuscript and print, looks at people who lived by their pens, and surveys authorial and scribal manuscripts, paying particular attention to the copying of verse, plays, and scholarly works by hand. It investigates the professional production of manuscripts for sale by scribes such as Ralph Crane and Richard Robinson. The second part of the book examines Sir Philip Sydney's works in the context of Woudhuysen's research, discussing all Sidney's important manuscripts, and seeking to assess his part in the circulation of his works and his role in the promotion of a scribal culture. A detailed examination of the manuscripts and early prints of his poems, his Arcadias, and of Astrophil and Stella shed new light on their composition, evolution, and dissemination, as well as on Sidney's friends and admirers.
Author: Philip SidneySir Philip Sidney
Author: Albert Charles HamiltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521214238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A general critical study of Sidney's life and works, first published in 1977: his life in relation to his works and both in relation to his age. In the late 1570s and early 1580s, when the literary scene in England was barren, Sidney emerged as the right man at the right moment to establish a national literature. In his Defence of Poetry he formulated a poetic which showed 'why and how' imaginative literature could be written in Protestant England; and in his poetry and prose, chiefly in Astrophel and Stella and the two versions of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, he revealed that the English language was, as he claimed, 'indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it'. Through the influence of his personality, his critical insight, and his brilliant achievement in both poetry and prose - which Professor Hamilton in this study establishes through careful analysis - Sidney became the central figure of the English literary Renaissance.
Writing After Sidney
Author: Gavin AlexanderPublisher:
ISBN: 0199591121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
'Writing After Sidney' examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, author of the 'Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella' and 'The Defence of Poesy', and the influential writer of the Elizabethan period.
Author: Philip SidneySir Philip Sidney, and the Sidney Circle
Author: Matthew WoodcockPublisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746311974
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This book provides a structured introduction to the life and works of Sir Philip Sidney, and includes a chapter on Sidney's closest literary peers and imitators.
