Sir Philip Sidney (The ^AOxford Authors) - Softcover

Sidney, Philip

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9780192820242: Sir Philip Sidney (The ^AOxford Authors)

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ISBN 10: 0192820249 ISBN 13: 9780192820242

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

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This volume of selections from the writings of Sir Philip Sidney includes the whole of his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, his Defence of Poesy, his Certain Sonnets, and substantial parts of both versions of the Arcadia. A selection of letters helps to create a complete picture of Sidney the man, and a generous assemblage of supplementary texts illustrates his inventiveness as a royal entertainer and describes the literary cult that grew up around him after his sudden death in 1586.

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About the Author:

Katherine Duncan-Jones is a Tutor in English and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

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"Wonderful...selection, layout, typography all excellent."--Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University

"Teachers and students will be particularly well served by the Duncan-Jones volume. Most appealing about this book of selected works is its inclusiveness....Makes available for the first time in a teachable paperback, a variety of historical materials....Makes it possible, thereby, to teach both a full selection of Sidney's works (especially the poetic works) and the creation of the Sidney legend."--Sixteenth Century Journal

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