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Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.
Apr 8, 2024 · Sir Philip Sidney was an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day. After Shakespeare’s sonnets, Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella is considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle.
Sir Philip Sidney. 1554–1586. Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images. The grandson of the Duke of Northumberland and heir presumptive to the earls of Leicester and Warwick, Sir Philip Sidney was not himself a nobleman.
His “The Defence of Poesy” was originally published under two different titles, The Defence of Poesie and An Apologie for Poetrie. It is a thorough and vigorous argument written by a practitioner of the art, who also had a strong education in the classics.
Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst (Kent) at 4:45 a.m. on Friday, November 30, 1554, the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and sister of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Ambrose, Earl of Warwick.
Sir Philip Sidney, (born Nov. 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, Eng.—died Oct. 17, 1586, Arnhem, Neth.), English courtier, statesman, soldier, and poet.
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Sir Philip Sidney, born in 1554, was the author of several major works of the Elizabethan era, including Astrophel and Stella, the first Elizabethan sonnet cycle.
