...Lisle Cecil John Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 SIR STEPHEN LE SIEUR AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY By LISLECECIL JOHN A little-known figure whose early career is associated with that of Sir Philip Sidney is Stephen Le Sieur, for some years his...

.... The 8-point types are clear, the line spacing adequate, and the stock light but firm. FREDERICKM. PADELFORD University of Washington Nobilis or A View of the Life and Death of a Sidney, and Lessus Lugubris. By THOMASMOFFET. With Introduction...

... Trevisa. DANIELG. CALDER University of Caltfornia, Los Angeles Sir Philip Sidney: A Study of His Ltfe and Works. By A. C. HAMILTON.New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1977. viii + 216 pp. $13.95...

...Douglas L. Peterson Ferry Anne. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. xiixii + 285 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS The “Inzuard” Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne. By ANNE...

...E. Harold Eby Charles R. Anderson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1945. 10 volumes. $30.00 Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 E. Harold Eby 253 The Centennkl Edition of the Works of Sidney Lanier. General editor...

...Irene Samuel Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE INFLUENCE OF PLAT0 ON SIR PHILIP SIDNEY’S DEFENSE OF POESY By IRENESAMUEL In Sir Philip Sidney’s brief Defense of Poesy Plato is named twenty times, six in passing...

...Cornell March Dowlin Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SIDNEY’S TWO DEFINITIONS OF POETRY By CORNELLMARCH DOWLIN Failure to recognize the direct debt of Sidney’s Apology for Poetry to Plato is one of the mysteries of scholarship, and gratitude...

...Robert L. Montgomery Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 1 Thelma N. Greenfield. The Eye of Judgment: Reading the “New Arcadia.” Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1982. 229 pp. $24.50. SIDNEY’S ARCADIA THE CRITICS’ BOOK...

...Joseph Loewenstein Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 SIDNEY’S TRUANT PEN By JOSEPH LOEWENSTEIN The death of Sidney might be taken as the occasion that best marks the coming-of-age of English literary culture, for surely he...

...Sidney R. Homan, Jr. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 DOCTOR FAUSTUS, DEKKERS OLD FORTUNATUS, AND THE MORALITY PLAYS By SIDNEYR. HOMAN,JR. Lately there has been considerable interest in the ties between...

...Sidney D. Braun Germaine Brée and Margaret Guiton. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1957. Pp. vi + 242. $5.00. Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 264 Reviews Although the authors are able to find translations for “absquatulate...

...Sidney D. Braun 302 REVIEWS Pour une esthttique de I‘essai: Analyses critiques (Breton, Sartre, Robbe- Grillet). By ROBERTCHAMPICNY. Paris: Minard, 1967. 110 pp. Although many definitions of the essay have been given, what it is has...

...A. C. Hamilton Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 ET IN ARCADIA EGO’ By A. C. HAMILTON While most areas of English Renaissance literature have been mapped and explored, and some even heavily industrialized, Sidney’s...

... of the treatises. Yvor Winters has done much to help us see Greville's poems, especially Caelica, as genuine poetic utterances based on a very personal idea of the meaning and na- ture of poetry, rather than merely as replies to Sidney or as prose clum- sily converted to verse. Hugh N. Maclean...

... . . . [and] exercise to know,” as Sidney enjoined. Through imitation he relates his poem to both the past and the future and so defines its contemporary significance. Aware of the decorum governing the genre in hand, he adopts conventions, yet adapts them to the demands of his poem. Consequently, he can...

..., and influential life. She was born in 1858, early enough to have Herbert Spencer for an avuncular friend; My Apprenticeship ends with her entry in 1892 into that strange marriage-partnership with Sidney Webb, a choice that ended her friend- ship with Spencer, who dismissed her as his literary executor...

... to Tasso. By KOH- ERT L. MONTGOMERY.Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of Califor- nia Press, 1979. vii + 235 pp. $14.00. Robert Montgomery studies five didactic theorists-Dante, Fracastoro, Dan- iele Barbaro, Sidney, and Tasso-who stressed the response of the audience and who...

... and Spenser with discussions of John Bale, the Mirror for Magzstrates, the literary theorists, and Sir Philip Sidney. The chapter on Skelton, which follows a substantial prologue, situates that railing poet as largely oppositional. Hadfield acknowledges that Skel- ton could, when it suited him...

... is displayed in Sonnet 6 where “the struc- ture and the language of the poem suggest ironies that betray dissatisfac- tion” with the conventional resolution as “the obtrusive word-figures stress not proportion, but excess” (p. 49). When Waswo turns to the inevitable discussions of Sidney’s influence...

... in this issue, the last two decades of the sixteenth century have always been very well treated by English literary history. These are, after all, the decades of Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney, of Christo- pher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, of Ben Jonson and John Donne. But if the 1580s and 1590s saw...