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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was an English poet and courtier who is
now seen as one of the most influential English writers of the
sixteenth century. Born into a politically active family, Sidney is
best known for his works Astrophel and Stella, a story in sonnet
form which popularised this literary genre in England, and Arcadia,
a romance which was the first English vernacular work to be
published on the continent. This volume, published in the first
series of English Men of Letters in 1886 by literary scholar John
Addington Symonds (1840-93), provides a concise biography of a
fascinating character. Describing Sidney's childhood, European
travels and time spent as a courtier, and his heroic death, this
biography draws together previous scholarship on Sidney to provide
a valuable account of his life and of contemporary English and
continental influences on his work.
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John Addington Symonds
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John Addington Symonds (1840 93), well known as an author, poet and
critic, wrote this biography of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792
1822) in an attempt to portray the complete man. Shelley, Symonds
writes, was more than a controversial atheist. He was full of
earnest conviction, enthusiasm, and intellectual vigour, but also
extravagance, crudity and presumption. Published in 1878 in the
first series of English Men of Letters, this book thus provides an
account of a literary life famously cut short, describing a writer
whose intellectual and poetic legacy was perhaps not fully
appreciated in the Victorian period, when the response to his poems
was frequently coloured by antipathy to his revolutionary ideas and
his unconventional private life, as well as to his loudly
proclaimed atheism.
This work is the only autobiography of a Renaissance artist. It
vividly describes the artist's life at the Papal Court in Rome and
at the Royal Court of France, including and eyewitness account of
the Sack of Rome in 1527. Cellini also gives us intimate details of
his career as a Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith.
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