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

Sir Philip Sidney's an Apology for Poetry/Astrophil and Stella: Texts and Contexts by Sidney, Philip, Sir. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780967912110.

This edition presents together Sir Philip Sidneys 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 Sidneys 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 Platos Republic, Scaligers Poetics, Gossons The School of Abuse, and Richard Wiless A Disputation Concerning Poetry (the first extended discussion of poetry in Englad). This edition also includes excerpts from Sidneys letters to his brother, Robert, and his friend, Sir Edward Denny. All the texts are newly edited, annotated, and modernized.