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Crescent Moon Publishing Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney Mark Tuley
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella is one of the major Elizabethan sonnet sequences reprinted here in an attractive new edition. Astrophel and Stella is a sonnet cycle of love poetry and some of the finest verse in the English language. The book includes a note on Sir Philip Sidney illustrations and suggestions for further reading. Each poem has a page to itself. Its a useful edition for students. Sir Philip Sidney is one of the most wellknown of Elizabethan sonneteers and a key poet in contributing towards the fashionable success of the genre. Born in 1554 in Penshurst in Kent Sidney was educated in Oxford (Christ Church) and Shrewsbury. Sidney was an ambassador (to the German Emperor in 1577) and involved in European politics (his European tour was 15721575). He was knighted in 1583 and was governor of Flushing in 1585. He died aged 31 in 1586 following wounds sustained in the Battle of Zutphen. Sir Philip Sidneys works include Arcadia (1577/ 86) Defence of Poetry translations of psalms and du Bartas sonnets for Penelope Rich (c. 1581) and Astrophel and Stella. Astrophel and Stella was first published in 1591 and again in 1598 (where it was at back of the edition of Arcadia). It was apparently edited by the Countess of Pembroke one of the principal figures in Elizabethan poetry. Illustrated. Bibliography and note. ISBN 9781861711762. 160 pages. www.crmoon.comshow more