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Many of Sidney’s finest poems are to be found in his long sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella – the first substantial sonnet sequence in English literature – but he wrote a number of other poems which are much-loved and widely anthologised. Below we’ve chosen what we think are ten of Sir Philip Sidney’s best poems. 1.
- Elizabethan Verse
‘My true love hath my heart, and I have his’: a summary. Sir...
- Astrophil and Stella
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Sonnet 99 from...
- Sir Philip Sidney
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Sonnet 99 from...
- Come Sleep, O Sleep
In 108 sonnets and a handful of songs, Sir Philip Sidney...
- The Best Poems About Writing Poetry
This poem, which opens Sidney’s 1580s sonnet sequence...
- Recommendations
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Until now,...
- Elizabethan Verse
The grandson of the Duke of Northumberland and heir presumptive to the earls of Leicester and Warwick, Sir Philip Sidney was not himself a nobleman. Today he is closely associated in the popular imagination with the court of Elizabeth I, though he spent relatively little time at the English court, and until his appointment as governor of Flushing in 1585 received little preferment from Elizabeth.
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- About Sir Philip Sidney
In ‘The Nightingale,’ the poet exploits the myth of Philomel to demonstrate the extent of the agony of his love-laden heart by comparing it with the nightingale’s suffering. The metamorphosed Philomel, however, can sing out her woes; but the poet’s bereavement is much more agonizing. He cannot find relief in vociferation. In the classical Greek myt...
The core theme that the poem ‘The Nightingale‘ harps on, is that the bruise a man has to bear deep within himself, caused by the unfulfillment of his passionate love for a lady, is unparalleled in its profundity and poignancy. Women can express their pain and predicament in concrete ways: words, in tears, in bewailing notes. But man has to tolerate...
The poem’s tone, in keeping with its theme, is melancholy. It starts on a somewhat impersonal, objective note, describing the approach of the springtime, the resuscitation of the winter-stricken earth, and the reawakening of the Nightingale’s singing spree. From the fourth line onwards, the poem is littered with terms associated with an irreparable...
The poem, ‘The Nightingale,’ is divided into two stanzas of equal size, both containing twelve lines, each of which ends in the same pattern, with a quatrain echoing each other and sounding like an elegiac refrain. In the structural pattern, metrical arrangement, and in the rhyme-scheme, the poem bears obvious marks of indebtedness to the Petrarcha...
Different figures of speechhave been used in this poem. 1. Personification: In the third line of the poem, ‘earth’ is personifiedas she is said to have been ‘proud of new clothing.’ The human feature of being proud of something is imposed on ‘earth,’ and hence, it is an instance of personification. 2. Metaphor: In the third line of the poem, the wo...
Sir Philip Sidney, like other poets, authors, and artists of the Elizabethan Age, was a product of the Renaissance milieu. Sidney was intrinsically a Renaissance man who championed the distinguishing facets of the Renaissance spirit. First to mention was his keen interest in exploring and exploiting the classical myths of ancient Greece and Rome. T...
Lines 1-12
The poem begins with the nightingale; and as soon as we start to steer our eyes through the next few lines, it becomes crystal-clear that the poet is not talking about a particular species of bird; rather, he is alluding to the hapless dame of mythology, the wretched Philomela, turned into a nightingale, to trill out her woes in her melancholy tunes. The poet starts describing the bird’s spring- schedule for starting her song anew; the nightingale’s grief that remains ‘oppressed’ or suppresse...
Lines 13-24
In zooming on his burden of woe, the poet continues undermining Philomela’s predicament in the second stanza too. In doing that, he even goes to attenuate the implication of the loathsome crime Tereus committed, in raping Philomela and subsequently cutting her tongue, by referring to it as ‘Tereus’ love.’ He tries to establish that Philomela’s anguish was caused by a feat of excessive love, expressed in a most violent, virile manner by Tereus. It is sheerly her feminine nature that makes Phil...
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was one of the most prominent litterateurs of Elizabethan England. While dedicating “The Shepherds Calendar” to Sidney, Edmund Spenser referred to him as “the noble and virtuous gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chivalry.” Sidney was the perfect embodiment of the Renaissance ideal of ‘gentleman s...
In the piece he defends “poor poetry” and argues that poetry, whose “final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of,” is the best vehicle for the “purifying of wit.”.
Sonnet 1 . By Sir Philip Sidney. Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,—.
The Nightingale. ‘The Nightingale’ is a unique love-lyric that exploits the classical myth of Philomel to morph the personal rue of a lovelorn heart into a superb piece of poetry. In this poem, Philip Sidney perfectly portrayed his agony by contrasting it with the Philomela myth.
He wrote in his hugely influential ‘Defence of Poesy’ that ‘verse far exceedeth prose in the knitting up of memory’: an apt claim when his poetry, including Astrophil and Stella, with its 108 sonnets and 11 songs, and Arcadia are still read today. Poems by Philip Sidney. Song From Arcadia. Read by Jacob Sam-La Rose. … Read the poem text.
