SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP

1554–86, English author and courtier. He was one of the leading members of Queen Elizabeth's court and a model of Renaissance chivalry. He served in several diplomatic missions on the Continent and in 1586 was fatally wounded at the battle of Zutphen. Sidney exerted a strong influence on English poetry as patron, critic, and example. His literary efforts circulated only in manuscript during his lifetime. Arcadia (1590), a series of verse idyls connected by prose narrative, was written for his sister Mary, countess of Pembroke. It is the earliest renowned pastoral in English literature. Sidney's prose criticism of the nature of poetry, written as a rebuttal to Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse, appeared in two slightly different versions—The Defense of Poesie and An Apology for Poetry (both 1595). Astrophel and Stella (1591) is one of the great sonnet sequences in English and was inspired by his love for Penelope Devereux, later Lady Rich. Sidney, however, married Frances Walsingham in 1583.

See his works ed. by A. Feuillerat (1962); The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke (ed. by J. C. A. Rathmell, 1963); biographies by M. W. Wallace (1915, repr. 1967); R. Howell (1968), J. M. Osborn (1972), and A. Stewart (2001); studies by S. M. Cooper (1968), D. Connell (1977), and D. Kay, ed. (1988).

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Sir Philip Sidney: Type of English Chivalry in the Elizabethan Age
Book by H. R. Fox Bourne; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1891
Subjects: Sidney, Philip--Sir--1554-1586
...175 ; his praise of Philip, 176 ; his visits...burial in 1585, 334 Sidney, Lucy, Sir Philips aunt. See Harrington, Lady Sidney, Margaret, Sir Philips sister, 16 , 17 Sidney, Lady Mary, Sir...23 ; her letter to Philip, 30 ; in Ireland...
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Sir Philip Sidney, Representative Elizabethan: His Life and Writings
Book by Frederick S. Boas; Russell & Russell, 1970
Subjects: Sidney, Philip--Sir--1554-1586
Mornay, Philip du Plessis, 158 , 160...Thomas, 131 , 132 Newton, Sir Richard, 15 Norris...191 Petrarch, 47 , 135 Philip, King of Spain, 10...Shirley, James, 117 Sidney, Ambrosia, 26 Sidney, Sir Henry, 9 , 10...
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Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640
Book by Gavin Alexander; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--England--History--16th Century, Sidney, Philip--Sir--1554-1586--Criticism And Interpretation
...185-6 and Philip Sidneys poetry...Wroths Urania 285 Sidney, Robert, 2nd...157 Sidney, Sir William 134, 142, 189, 332 Sidney Psalms 78, 84...15 5 see also Sidney, Mary, Countess...Sidney, Sir Philip (Psalmes) Simonides...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Book by Kenneth Muir; Longmans, Green & Co., 1960
Subjects: Fiction, Sidney, Philip--Sir--1554-1586
...DAVID, BEGUN BY SIR P. SIDNEY AND FINISHED BY...fortythree sonnets are by Sidney. The complete series...The Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney are reprinted...LIFE AND WRITING OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY...Chivalry , 1891. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , by J. A. Symonds...
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Poets, Patrons, and Professors: Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers, and the Leiden Humanists
Book by J. A. Van Dorsten; 1962
Subjects: Great Britain--Relations--Netherlands, Humanists, Netherlands--Relations--Great Britain, Rogers, Daniel, Sidney, Philip--Sir--1554-1586
...returns--on the portrait of Sidney--a general migration of scholars...English poetry-- Rogers Life of Sidney VI. THE ECLIPSE OF ROGERS 68 The...imprisonment and dis illusion PART II. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY I. LEIDEN VISITS ENGLAND 77 1580...
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"Bastard Children of Tyranny": The Ancient Constitution and Fulke Greville's A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney *
Journal article by Peter C. Herman; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Attorneys as authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, Blacklisting, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke--Criticism and interpretation, Lawyers--Criticism and interpretation, Monarchs, Nobility, Peerage, Physicians, Physicians as authors, Prisoners, Prisoners as authors, Sidney, Philip, Sir--Portrayals, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
...Fulke Grevilles A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney *. by Peter C. Herman Critics...noble adorner of that practise Sir Philip Sidney," and in 1614, Richard Carey...publish the Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney in 1652? What made them think...
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Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640
Journal article by Margaret Hannay; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Writing After Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640 (Book)--Book reviews
...Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640. by Margaret Hannay Gavin Alexander...demanding dialogue" (337). In Writing After Sidney, the figure of Sir Philip Sidney reemerges as the center of late Elizabethan...
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Querre-Muhau: Sir Philip Sidney and the New World
Journal article by Roger Kuin; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: America--History, Sidney, Philip--Conduct of life
Querre-Muhau: Sir Philip Sidney and the New World. by Roger...Ottawa, 1993. Buxton, John. Sir Philip Sidney and the English Renaissance...Ottawa, 1994. Howell, Roger. Sir Philip Sidney, The Shepherd Knight. Boston...
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Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Prophesying
Journal article by Roger E. Moore; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, 2010
Subjects: Christian poetry--Social aspects, Poets--Works, Prophecies--Social aspects, Religion and state--Management, Sidney, Philip, Sir--Works, The Defence of Poesy (Poetry collection)--Authorship
...4) Nashe, p. 286. (5) Sir Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy, in...of Abuse in 1579 and 1582/3 Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet New Haven...Sidney, "A Letter Written by Sir Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth Touching...
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Sidney's Dedicatory Poem: To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney
Journal article by R. E. Pritchard; The Explicator, Vol. 54, 1995
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...DEDICATORY POEM: TO THE ANGEL SPIRIT OF THE MOST EXCELLENT SIR PHILIP SIDNEY In his Brief Lives , Aubrey wrote, "there was so great love between Sir Philip Sidney and his faire sister that I have heard old Gentlemen...
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Shakespeare Would Impeach (Except as Taught at Yale)
Magazine article by Terence P. Jeffrey; Human Events, Vol. 54, August 28, 1998
Subjects: Clinton, Bill, Drama, Poetry, Politics, Presidents, Scandals, Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), Sidney, Philip (1554-86)
...Administration. Shakespeares contemporary, Sir Philip Sidney, spelled out the traditional view...princes over all the rest," wrote Sidney. Good literature, he said...Two Cities, on the reallife Sir Philip. For Dickens, Carton brings symbolic...
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Save Terri Schiavo
Magazine article by Terence P. Jeffrey; Human Events, Vol. 61, January 31, 2005
Subjects: Bills, Bush, Jeb, Florida, Governors, Legislatures, Life support systems, Schiavo, Terri, Sidney, Philip (1554-86), State court decisions, Wives
...but they acted in the spirit of Sir Philip Sidney when they tried to save the life of Terri Schiavo. When Sidney, a young warrior and poet in the...is the same principle that Sir Philip Sidney acted on when he sent his...
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Science and Secondhand Smoke
Magazine article by Sidney Zion; Skeptic, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Lung cancer, Smoking, Studies, Tobacco smoke
...campaign dates to 1975 when British delegate Sir George Godber instructed the World Health...Passive Smoking: How Great the Hazard?", Sir George said, "it would be essential to...didnt think cancer would happen to them. Sir George understood what it would take to...
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Penshurst Place, Kent
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 47, October 1997
Subjects: Historic buildings--England, Kent, England--Historic sites
...Porcupine). Sir Philip and his father...brother, Robert Sidney (1563-1626...the widower Sir Bysshe Shelley...admirer of Sir Philip Sidney), and their...rebuilt the Sidney chapel in the parish church. Philip Sidney (1800...
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Renewing the Renaissance and Its Literature
Magazine article by Lawrence F. Rhu; World and I, Vol. 13, December 1998
Subjects: European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600, Humanism--Influence, Renaissance literature, Renaissance--Influence
...sixteenth century. The Elizabethan theorist of poetry Sir Philip Sidney exhibits the same combination of high hopes and sober...line Italian form. The charismatic nobleman Sir Philip Sidney had died fighting on behalf of the Protestant cause...
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Archive: Hidden World beyond the Pomp and Ceremony; Chris Upton Goes off the Tourist Trail at Warwick Castle to Discover a Once Golden Circle of Courtiers
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 8, 2003
Subjects: Sidney, Philip, Sir
...Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, friend to Sir Philip Sidney. There are, in addition, two Latin words: Trophaeum...the political wind, it was his friendship with Sir Philip Sidney that Greville valued most. The two men were friends...
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Return of the Whale Hunters; We've Learned to Love Whales and Dolphins but a New Film Reveals the Sickening Slaughter of These Beautiful Creatures, Writes Philip Hoare
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 10, 2009
Subjects: Delphinidae, Dolphins, Dolphins (Mammals), Marine mammals, Motion pictures, Movies, Wildlife conservation
...Beautiful Creatures, Writes Philip Hoare. Byline: Philip Hoare KILLING that which...reported Professor Sidney Harmer. Contrast such...announced its chairman, Sir Harmar Nicholls, MP...Leviathan or, The Whale by Philip Hoare is published by...
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Novel Ways to Update Opera; A Rare Revival of Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana Is Welcome. but Modern Opera Companies Should Really Be Looking at Zadie Smith and Philip Pullman
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 7, 2004
...Be Looking at Zadie Smith and Philip Pullman. Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT...of romanticism, the works of Sir Walter Scott spawned more than...Covent Garden had latched on to Philip Pullman before the National...was Reeds production partner, Sidney Gilliat, who was also writing...
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Travel: The Garden of England Blooms; Green-Fingered Alison Davison Was on the Look out for Inspiration on a Visit to Some of the Most Important Gardens in the Country and She Was Not Disappointed
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 18, 2004
...been home to kings and noblemen and became the Sidney family seat in 1552, when it was given by Edward VI to Sir William Sidney, grandfather of the poet Sir Philip. The hall has been perfectly preserved and...
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Will Opening This Tomb Prove Shakespeare Didn't Write His Plays? A Murdered Spy,coded Messages from beyond the Grave and a Very Tantalising Question
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 11, 2010
Subjects: Soldiers
...soldier, statesman and spy. Like his dearest friend Sir Philip Sidney, he was also an accomplished author. So talented...biography of James I and the priceless remains of Sir Philip Sidney, a giant of the Elizabethan age. Of one thing the...
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Sidney, Sir Philip
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP 1554 86, English author and courtier...fatally wounded at the battle of Zutphen. Sidney exerted a strong influence on English...Feuillerat (1962); The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke...
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Sydney, Sir Philip
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SYDNEY, SIR PHILIP see Sidney, Sir Philip . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Raleigh, Sir Walter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER both: rol e, ral e, 1554? 1618...brother Carew joined their half brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert in outfitting a heavily...Faerie Queene, begun under the aegis of Sir Philip Sidney, was continued under Raleighs patronage...
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Walsingham, Sir Francis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WALSINGHAM, SIR FRANCIS wol sing- m, 1532? 1590, English statesman. A zealous...the debts he assumed (1586) at the death of his son-in-law, Sir Philip Sidney, put him in financial difficulties, and he died in debt. See C...
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Spenser, Edmund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and at court, including Gabriel Harvey, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester. After serving as secretary...court life, and Astrophel, an elegy on Sir Philip Sidney, were published. In the same year...
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