In the late 16th century, Sir Philip Sidney produced the first influential English sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, inspired by his life at the Elizabethan court. Relative to his contemporaries Shakespeare and Spenser, Sidney’s work has attracted little scholarly attention in recent years, a curious phenomenon in light of the importance accorded his Defense of Poesy and given the excellen...

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