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Sir Philip Sidney - A Study of his Life and Works (Paperback)
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Sir Philip Sidney - A Study of his Life and Works (Paperback)
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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 barren, Sidney emerged as the right
man at the right moment to establish a national literature. In his
Defence of Poetry he formulated a poetic which showed 'why and how'
imaginative literature could be written in Protestant England; and
in his poetry and prose, chiefly in Astrophel and Stella and the
two versions of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, he revealed
that the English language was, as he claimed, 'indeed capable of
any excellent exercising of it'. Through the influence of his
personality, his critical insight, and his brilliant achievement in
both poetry and prose - which Professor Hamilton in this study
establishes through careful analysis - Sidney became the central
figure of the English literary Renaissance.
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