The Defence of Poesy

Further reading

Works

  • The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler. Oxford University Press, 1962. ISBN 9780198118343
  • The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, ed. Maurice Evans. Penguin Books, 1997. ISBN 0-14-043111-X
  • The Sidney Psalms, completed by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, ed. R.E. Pritchard. Fyfield Books. ISBN 978-0-85635-983-5

Books

  • Alexander, Gavin. Writing After Sidney: the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586–1640. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Allen, M. J. B. et al. Sir Philip Sidney's Achievements. New York: AMS Press, 1990.
  • Craig, D. H. "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in An Apology for Poetry." Essential Articles for the Study of Sir Philip Sidney. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. Hamden: Archon Books, 1986.
  • Davies, Norman. Europe: A History. London: Pimlico, 1997.
  • Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991.
  • Frye, Northrup. Words With Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1992.
  • Garrett, Martin. Ed. Sidney: the Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 1996.
  • Greville, Fulke.Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney. London, 1652.
  • Hale, John. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. New York: Atheeum, 1994.
  • Howell, Roger. Sir Philip Sidney: The Shepherd Knight. London: Hutchinson, 1968.
  • Jasinski, James. Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001.
  • Kimbrough, Robert. Sir Philip Sidney. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971.
  • Kuin, Roger (ed.), "The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney". 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Leitch, Vincent B., Ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001.
  • Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.
  • Robertson, Jean. "Philip Sidney." In The Spenser Encyclopedia. eds. A. C. Hamilton et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." In Shelley’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. 2nd ed. Eds. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
  • Sidney, Philip. A Defence of Poesie and Poems. London: Cassell and Company, 1891.
  • Van Dorsten, Jan, et al. Sir Philip Sidney: 1586 and the Creation of a Legend. Leiden: Brill, 1986.
  • Woudhuysen, H. R., Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996
  • The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Volume 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910.
  • Pears, Steuart A., The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet, subtitled now first collected and translated from the latin with notes and a memoir of Sidney, Wiliam Pickering, London, 1845; Gregg International Publishers, Ltd., Farnborough, 1971: (Pears, Steuart Adolphus).
  • Bradley, William Aspenwall, Ed. The Correspondence of Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet (The Humanist's Library V, Einstein, Lewis, Ed.), The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1912. (also includes two letters from Sidney to his brother Robert and biographical notes)

Articles

  • Acheson, Kathy. "'Outrage your face': Anti-Theatricality and Gender in Early Modern Closet Drama by Women." Early Modern Literary Studies 6.3 (January, 2001): 7.1–16. 21 October 2005.
  • Bear, R. S. "Defence of Poesie: Introduction. In Renascence Editions. 21 October 2005.
  • Griffiths, Matthew. English Court Poets and Petrarchism: Wyatt, Sidney and Spenser. 25 November 2005.
  • Harvey, Elizabeth D. Sidney, Sir Philip Archived 31 October 2005 at the Wayback Machine. In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. 25 November 2005.
  • Knauss, Daniel, Philip. Love’s Refinement: Metaphysical Expressions of Desire in Philip Sidney and John Donne., Master's Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the North Carolina State University. 25 November 2005.
  • Maley, Willy. Cultural Materialism and New Historicism. 8 November 2005
  • Mitsi, Efterpi. The "Popular Philosopher": Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics. In Early Modern Literary Studies. 9 November 2004.
  • Pask, Kevin. "The "mannes state" of Philip Sidney: Pre-scripting the Life of the Poet in England." 25 November 2005.
  • Staff. Sir Philip Sidney 1554–1586, Poets' Graves. Accessed 26 May 2008

Other

  • Stump, Donald (ed). "Sir Philip Sidney: World Bibliography, Saint Louis University. Accessed 26 May 2008. "This site is the largest collection of bibliographic references on Sidney in existence. It includes all the items originally published in Sir Philip Sidney: An Annotated Bibliography of Texts and Criticism, 1554–1984 (New York: G.K. Hall, Macmillan 1994) as well updates from 1985 to the present."

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