Sir Philip Sydney was born in 1534 and by the time of his death only 32 years later had come to exemplify the ideal courtier. This collection of his writings is the ideal window into the mind and work of this essayist, poet, diplomat, and favorite.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- Buy $50 in qualifying physical textbooks, get $5 in Amazon MP3 Credit. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
You will probably be familiar, at least in outline, with the following account of how Philip Sidney left the battlefield at Zutphen, having received what was to prove a fatal wound, his leg shattered by a musket ball, being thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink, which was presently brought to him; but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along who had eaten his last at the same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coupled joys Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Philip Sidney, Low Countries, Earl of Essex, Penelope Devereux, That Virtue New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
You will probably be familiar, at least in outline, with the following account of how Philip Sidney left the battlefield at Zutphen, having received what was to prove a fatal wound, his leg shattered by a musket ball, being thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink, which was presently brought to him; but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along who had eaten his last at the same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coupled joys Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Philip Sidney, Low Countries, Earl of Essex, Penelope Devereux, That Virtue New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 23
books:
See all 23 books this book cites
100
books
cite this book:
See all 100 books citing this book
- Selected Writings: Astrophil and Stella, the Defense of Poesy and Miscellanious Poems (Fyfield Books) by Philip, Sir Sidney in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Third Edition by Philip Sidney on page 27, and page 28
- Sir Philip Sidney (The Oxford Authors) by Philip Sidney on page 27
- Ben Jonson (Longman Critical Readers Series) by Richard Dutton in Front Matter
- The Golden Ass (Dodo Press) by Lucius Apuleius on page 141
See all 23 books this book cites
- Hitchcock: Past and Future by Richard Allen in Front Matter, page 21, and page 191
- History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Robert Mayer on page 144, page 145, and page 147
- Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir by Gene D. Phillips in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City (Cambridge Film Handbooks) by Sidney Gottlieb in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) by Susanne Rupp on page 171, and page 180
See all 100 books citing this book
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
