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William Andrew Ringler. The Defence of Poesie, literary criticism by Sir Philip Sidney, written about 1582 and published posthumously in 1595. Another edition of the work, published the same year, is titled An Apologie for Poetrie. Considered the finest work of Elizabethan literary criticism, Sidney’s elegant essay.
Philip Sidney, né le 30 novembre 1554 à Penshurst et mort le 17 octobre 1586 à Arnhem [note 1] est un noble anglais, officier et poète. Surnommé « le plus accompli des gentilshommes d'Angleterre » par ses contemporains, il est le neveu de Robert Dudley , comte de Leicester, favori de la reine Élisabeth .
Sir Philip Sidney. : Albert Charles Hamilton. Cambridge University Press, Jun 23, 1977 - Biography & Autobiography - 216 pages. 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 ...
Sidney was highly devoted to his work as a courtier and was even deemed the “Great Favourite” of the Elizabeth (Kuin). Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586 of an infected thigh wound that he obtained in a battle against the Spanish. Sidney is said to have had an elaborate and expensive funeral procession (Greenblatt 1037).
Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella explores all aspects of its topic, the love of the fictional Astrophil and Stella. Although Sidney’s sonnets are Petrarchan in the content of a lover’s lament and exaggerated praise of the beloved’s beauty, the structure features elements of both English and Italian sonnets.
Philip passou os próximos anos na Europa, andando pela Alemanha, Itália, Polónia e Áustria. Nestas viagens, conheceu diversos intelectuais e políticos europeus promissores. Ao regressar a Inglaterra em 1575, Sidney conheceu Penelope Devereaux, a futura Penelope Blount, que, apesar de ser muito jovem, inspirou o seu mais famoso soneto, Astrophel and Stella .
Philip Sidney. Philip Sidney. Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one of the most prominent poets of the Elizabethan era. Like his close friend Edmund Spenser, Sidney helped to popularize Italian poetic forms such as the sonnet and the villanelle, making them some of the most popular and enduring forms in English poetry.
