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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.
Sir Philip Sidney (born November 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, England—died October 17, 1586, Arnhem, Netherlands) was an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day.
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. Today he is closely associated in the popular imagination with the court of Elizabeth I, though he spent relatively little time at the English court,…
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. Today he is closely associated in the popular imagination with the court of Elizabeth I, though he spent relatively little time at the English court,...
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was one of the finest poets of the English Renaissance and a pioneer of the sonnet form and English love poetry.
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.
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.
The Defence of Poesie, literary criticism by Sir Philip Sidney, written about 1582 and published posthumously in 1595. Another edition of the work, published the same year, is titled An Apologie for Poetrie. Considered the finest work of Elizabethan literary criticism, Sidney’s elegant essay.
Introduction. Autograph Literary Manuscripts. Of all Sidney's literary works, only three pieces are preserved in his own handwriting: Certain Sonnets No. 6 (*SiP 31), the prose Defence of the Earl of Leicester (*SiP 172), and part of his prose Discourse on Irish Affairs (*SiP 180). Letters.
