Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was a patron, brilliant courtier, diplomat, scholar, soldier and lover, as well as being the first and one of the most important writers of the English Renaissance; his writings, serious or light-hearted and always experimental, vindicate this high esteem. The sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is distinguished in the English language as a masterpiece of lyric splendor and a classic of the courtly tradition.

Defense of Poesie, Astrophel and Stella and Other Writings (Everyman's Library)

Literature & Fiction

Sidney, Philip, Sir

Essays & Correspondence

Everymans Library

Often seen as a key to understanding Elizabethan poetry, Sidney's persuasive treatise follows the rules of rhetoric in presenting evidence of the virtues of poetry. Sidney argues with wit and irony that poetry is the art which best teaches what is good and true. This seems a fitting argument for this prominent experimental poet who himself is said to have represented 'life and action good and great'.

Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy

History & Criticism

University Of Nebraska Press

Originally published in 1869. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.  All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia

Poetry

Scholars' Facsimilies & Reprint

The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney

Ayer Co. Pub

This selection includes the full text of the "Defence of Poetry" and "Astrophil and Stella", fully annotated, with a selection of the other poems. "When Sidney died," writes Richard Dutton, "those who mourned him did so as a hero of Protestant Europe, a model of Christian virtue, of the Renaissance scholar-poet, of the true knight." Dutton corrects the exaggerations in the popular view, painting a human, fallible and credible figure. He also emerges as a more sympathetic writer, losing the coldness of the heroic gloss that normally accompanies him.

Selected Writings: Astrophil and Stella, the Defense of Poesy and Miscellanious Poems

Carcanet Pr

This edition presents together Sir Philip Sidney's response to the many attacks on poetry current in early modern England, An Apology for Poetry, and his path-breaking sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella. The introduction provides biographical and historical contexts for reading Sidney's works, and to help students explore how the Apology arises from and intervenes in the "Quarrel over Poetry," this volume provides substantial excerpts from such texts as Plato's Republic, Scaliger's Poetics, Gosson's The School of Abuse, and Richard Wiles's A Disputation Concerning Poetry (the first extended discussion of poetry in Englad). This edition also includes excerpts from Sidney's letters to his brother, Robert, and his friend, Sir Edward Denny. All the texts are newly edited, annotated, and modernized.

Sir Philip Sidney's an Apology for Poetry/Astrophil and Stella: Texts and Contexts

College Pub

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

History

BiblioLife

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Bibliolife Reproduction)

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Defense of Poesie, Astrophel and Stella and Other Writings (Everyman's Library)

Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy

The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia

The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney

Selected Writings: Astrophil and Stella, the Defense of Poesy and Miscellanious Poems

Sir Philip Sidney's an Apology for Poetry/Astrophil and Stella: Texts and Contexts

The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney

The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney

The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney

The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Bibliolife Reproduction)