Defense of Poesie (Everyman Paperback Classics) - Softcover

Sidney Sir, Sir Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460876597 ISBN 13: 9780460876599

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was a patron, brilliant courtier, diplomat, scholar, soldier and lover, as well as being the first and one of the most important writers of the English Renaissance; his writings, serious or light-hearted and always experimental, vindicate this high esteem. The sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is distinguished in the English language as a masterpiece of lyric splendor and a classic of the courtly tradition.

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• Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0460876597
• ISBN 13: 9780460876599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Watson Lecturer In English Elizabeth Porges