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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

Sidney, Philip, Sir. An English courtier and man of letters; born at Penshurst in Kent, Nov. 30, 1554; died at Arnheim, Oct. 17, 1586. He wrote ‘Sonnets’; a celebrated essay, ‘Apology for Poetry’ (1595); a pastoral tale, ‘Arcadia’ (1590); and a versified translation of the ‘Psalms.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).