By Darius Gittens,

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Sir Philip Sidney

• By Darius Gittens,
• Lenise Lewis,
• Michael Cahoon

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Throughout his life

• Eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary
  Dudley.
• At age 10, he entered Shrewsbury School, where
  his classmate was Fulke Greville who became his
  lifelong friend and was his early biographer.
• In February 1568 he began a three-year period of
  studies at Christ Church, Oxford, afterward
  traveling in Europe between May 1572 and June
  1575, perfecting his knowledge of Latin, French,
  and Italian.
• His first court appointment came in the spring of
  1576, when he succeeded his father as cupbearer
  to the queen, a ceremonial position.

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More on his life

• -Sidney was a member of Parliament for Kent in
  1581 and 158485.
• -Sidney was among the few Englishmen of his time
  with any interest in the newly discovered
  Americas,
• - In 1582 Richard Hakluyt, who published accounts
  of English explorers' enterprises, dedicated his
  Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America
  to him.
• -Sidney later became interested in the project to
  establish the American colony of Virginia, sent
  out by Sir Walter Raleigh, and he intended to set
  out himself in an expedition with Sir Francis
  Drake against the Spaniards.

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The Works of Sir Philip Sidney

• A Dialogue Between two Shepherds, uttered in a
  Pastoral Show at Wilton (1580)
• Letters
• Letter to Queen Elizabeth I,Dissuading Her from
  Marrying the Duke of Anjou (1580)
• The Arcadia (1590)
• 1st-4th Eclogues
• Written for his sister Mary

• Astrophil and Stella (1591)
• First of the famous English sonnet
  sequences-contains 108 sonnets and 11 songs
• Defense of Poesy (1596)
• a response to an attack on poetry and stage plays
  
• The Lady of May (1598)
• Palms
• 1-19

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Influences of Sir Philip Sidney

• By
• Aristotle
• Praxis is tantamount to gnosis or
• Human action is equivalent to knowledge
• Astrophil and Stella
• Inspired by his love for Penelope Devereux

• Future
• Poets
• Place of poets in society
• poetry creates a separate reality
• Arcadia
• earliest renowned pastoral in English literature
• The Defense of Poesie
• Criticized the nature poetry

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"Loving in truth..."

• Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to
  show,
• That the dear she might take some pleasure of my
  pain,
• Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make
  her know,
• Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,
• I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of
  woe
• Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain,
• Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence
  would flow
• Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned
  brain.
• But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's
  stay
• Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's
  blows
• And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my
  way.
• Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in
  my throes,
• Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite
• "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart,
  and write."

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His Works

• The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1590,
  consisting of the revised Books I, II, and part
  of III 2nd ed., augmented and ended, 1593,
  adds original Books IIIV 3rd ed., 1598, also
  includes Certaine Sonets and The Lady of May)
  Syr P.S. His Astrophel and Stella (1591), an
  unauthorized corrupt text a slightly corrected
  edition of the same year a better text also
  contained in the 1598 edition of the Arcadia The
  Defence of Poesie (1595 another edition, of the
  same year, entitled An Apologie for Poetrie) The
  Psalmes of David (first printed 1823only the
  first 43 by Sidney, the rest by his sister).
• Twentieth-century editions include A. Feuillerat
  (ed.), The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney, 4
  vol. (191226), texts of the earliest editions
  William A. Ringler, Jr. (ed.), The Poems of Sir
  Philip Sidney (1962) Jean Robertson (ed.), The
  Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)
  (1973), critically reconstructed texts Katherine
  Duncan-Jones and Jan van Dorsten (eds.),
  Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney (1973)
  and Victor Skretkowicz (ed.), The Countess of
  Pembroke's Arcadia The New Arcadia (1987).

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• "Sidney, Sir Philip." Encyclopedia Britannica.
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