The complete poems of Sir Philip Sidney. For the first time collected and collated with the original and early editions and MSS. ... Edited with essay ... illustrations, by ... Alexander B. Grosart.

by Philip Sidney

The complete poems of Sir Philip Sidney. For the first time collected and collated with the original and early editions and MSS. ... Edited with essay on the life and writings, and notes and illustrations, by ... Alexander B. Grosart.

British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse.

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British Library
Sidney, Philip;
1877.
3 plate; port. 19 cm.
11612.e.29.

276 pages, Paperback

Published February 12, 2011

About the author

Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent literary figures of the Elizabethan Age.

Reviews

[David Sterritt]

Sir Philip Sidney was a remarkably gifted, versatile, and all-around brilliant person, and reading his Complete Poetical Works has been quite a ride, complicated by the archaic spellings preserved in the Cambridge UP edition. To my surprise, his renderings of dozens of biblical Psalms are among my favorites, whereas some portions of his sonnet cycles seem pretty dull. His output is prolific and diverse, the rhythms are rigorous and varied, the structures are often dramatic and evocative. Sidney is definitely one of English lit’s major giants. Recommended to anyone with the interest, time, and energy.

[D.A. Fellows · Rating 2 out of 5]

2/5 stars. Couldn’t enjoy more than a handful of these poems. The strong use of meter and rhyme is very compelling, and I don’t dispute the author’s technical ability, but the sheer number and repetitive nature of the poems wore me down eventually, and by the end I was reading it simply to get through and be done with it.