Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney ( born November 30, 1554 Penshurst, Kent; † 17 Oktoberjul / 27 October 1586greg in Arnhem.. ) Was an English courtier, soldier and writer. He was one of the first major writers of English prose.

Life and artistic work

Sidney was the son of Sir Henry Sidney, who was appointed by Queen Elizabeth I Tudor governor of Ireland, brother of Robert Sidney and nephew of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and the Gray 's Inn in London, and then traveled for three years the European continent, where he among other things, the St. Bartholomew's Day in Paris witnessed, were murdered in the thousands of Huguenots and the English Protestants entrenched under his leadership in the British Embassy. Returned in 1575, he first won the favor of Queen Elizabeth I, without, however, he was able to benefit significantly with a view of his career at the court. Sidney married the daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham and but withdrew in 1578 after Wilton House in Wiltshire, the country seat of his brother, the Earl of Pembroke, where he a series of Sonnets in the sought, to the conceits of the Italian subsequent style of the age and the pastoral romance Arcadia wrote.

But though Sidney decided spanish and italian pattern in mind, he or she is not satisfied yet with descriptions of the shepherd life; he also interweaves scenes of knights and hunting life with those they know and with the same liveliness and grace to perform. His Apology for Poetrie ( 1595 ) tried to show that the pleasures of poetry are powerful promoters not only in the acquisition of knowledge, but also in the maintenance of virtue.

Sidney was seen as the ideal of a courtier, soldier and scholar, and at the same time proved to be a generous, insightful carrier of art and science. 1582 he returned to the court and was appointed governor of Flushing. Under his uncle, the Earl of Leicester, Fencing against the Spaniards, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Zutphen in September 1586. When dying, he sent a letter to the jülisch - Cleves personal physician Johann Weyer in Wesel with a request for help. Sidney died on 17./27. October 1586 and was buried in the old St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Works

  • William A. Ringler (eds.): The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney. Clarendon, Oxford 1962.
  • Katherine Duncan -Jones, Jan van Dorsten (Ed.): Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney. Clarendon, Oxford 1972, ISBN 978-0-1981-1880-0.
  • Jean Robertson ( ed.): The Countess of Pembroke 's Arcadia ( The Old Arcadia ). Clarendon, Oxford 1973, ISBN 0-19-811855-4.
  • Victor Skretkowicz (ed.): The Countess of Pembroke 's Arcadia (The New Arcadia ). Clarendon, Oxford, 1987, ISBN 0-19-812743- X.
  • Hannibal Hamlin (ed.): The Sidney Psalter. The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-921793-9.
  • Roger Kuin (eds): The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney. 2 vols, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-955822-3.

Literature (selection )

  • Gavin Alexander: Writing after Sidney. The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-19-928547-0.
  • Michael G. Brennan, Noel J. Kinnamon: A Sidney Chronology, 1554-1654. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills 2003, ISBN 0-333-96400-4.
  • Katherine Duncan -Jones: Sir Philip Sidney. Courtier Poet. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1991, ISBN 0-300-05099-2.
  • Martin Garrett (ed.): Sidney. The Critical Heritage. Routledge, London 1996, ISBN 0-415-08934-4.
  • Alan Stewart: Philip Sidney. A Double Life. Chatto & Windus, London 2000, ISBN 0-7011-6859-5.
  • Robert E. Stillman: Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6369-0.
  • Donald V. Stump: Sir Philip Sidney. An Annotated Bibliography of Texts and Criticism, 1554-1984. Hall, New York 1994, ISBN 0-8161-8238-8.
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