The Life of Sir Philip Sidney

Professor Malcolm William Wallace examines all the previous manuscripts and published sources of information pertaining to Sidney's life.

Malcolm William Wallace (Author)

9780521166225, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

440 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg

For this study of Sir Philip Sidney, first published in 1915, Professor Malcolm William Wallace sought to examine all the previous manuscripts and published sources of information pertaining to Sidney's life. To this he added some significant details of Sidney's childhood, drawn from Thomas Marshall's book of accounts - a manuscript which Professor Wallace discovered at Penshurst and which he edited in an appendix to this volume. There is also a fuller disclosure of the intimacy of Sidney's relationship to the Prince of Orange along with various other points of some interest. The sum of these details helps to make this volume an important contribution to the study of one of the most enduring Elizabethan poets.

1. Birth and parentage
2. Church preferment
3. Shrewsbury school
4. A visit to Oxford
5. Sir Henry in Ireland, 1566–1571
6. University education
7. Saint Bartholomew
8. Continental travel
9. At Court
10. An ambassador of the Queen
11. 1577–1579
12. Sidney a man of letters - the Arcadia and the Apologie for Poetrie
13. Astrophel and Stella
14. 1581
15. 1582
16. 1583
17. 1584
18. 1585
19. The Netherlands
20. Military operations
21. The end
Postcript
Facsimile page of Marshall's manuscript
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]