1st Edition

Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture The Poet in his Time and in Ours

Edited By Gary F. Waller, Michael D. Moore Copyright 1984
159 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

159 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1984, Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture is a collection of essays which reflect the diversity of contemporary approaches to the controversial figure of Sir Philip Sidney, and range from the ‘historicist’ to the ‘revisionist’. Interest in the work of Sir Philip Sidney, in the cultural significance of his ‘Circle’ in the late Elizabethan age and the... Read more

Introduction Credits Contributors 1. Speaking Pictures S. K. Heninger, Jr 2. The Meeting of the Muses Germaine Warkentin 3. Divided Aims in the Revised Arcadia Maurice Evane 4. Astrophil’s Stella and Stella’s Astrophil Robert L. Montgomery 5. Sidneian Indirection Charles S. Levy 6. The Rewriting of Petrarch Gary F. Waller 7. Unending Desire Marion Campbell 8. ‘What May Words Say’ Jacqueline T. Miller 9. Sidney’s Presence in Lyric Verse of the Later English Renaissance Jon A. Quitslund 10. The Cultural Politics of the Defence of Poetry Alan Sinfield Index

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Edited by Gary F. Waller and Michael D. Moore.