Selected Works (Oxford Authors S.) - Softcover

Sidney, Sir Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192820249 ISBN 13: 9780192820242

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1989

Synopsis

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 fills out the picture of Sidney the man and supplementary texts illustrate both his inventiveness as a royal entertainer and the literary cult which grew up around him after his sudden death in 1586. Katherine Duncan-Jones has also edited "Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney" and "The Old Arcadia".

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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 "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 "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 "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

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192820249
• ISBN 13: 9780192820242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 441