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

paperback – January 1, 1987
by Sidney, Philip, Sir
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ISBN-13: 9780856356254 ISBN-10: 0856356255
Publisher
Brand: Carcanet Pr
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1987
Weight
0.4 lbs
Dimensions
20.30×1.90×14.00 cm

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Selected Writings: Astrophil and Stella, the Defense of Poesy and Miscellanious Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780856356254.

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.