Author: | Percy Addleshaw | ISBN: | 9781411452367 |
Publisher: | Barnes & Noble | Publication: | April 26, 2011 |
Imprint: | Barnes & Noble | Language: | English |
Author: | Percy Addleshaw |
ISBN: | 9781411452367 |
Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
Publication: | April 26, 2011 |
Imprint: | Barnes & Noble |
Language: | English |
A captivating biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)—poet, courtier, soldier, and one of the Elizabethan Age’s most prominent figures. Sidney exemplified the qualities of a courtier: learned and politic, but also generous, brave, and impulsive. He was memorialized as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser’s Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies.
A captivating biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)—poet, courtier, soldier, and one of the Elizabethan Age’s most prominent figures. Sidney exemplified the qualities of a courtier: learned and politic, but also generous, brave, and impulsive. He was memorialized as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser’s Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies.