Philip Sydney- Renaissance criticism

Sir Philip Sidney, (born November 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, England—died October 17, 1586, Arnhem, Netherlands), Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day. After Shakespeare’s sonnets, Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella is considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle. His The Defence of Poesie introduced the critical ideas of Renaissance theorists to England. #philip #sidney#critical#work #an#apology #for#poetry #criticism #philip Sidney #Sir Philip Sidney #renaissance critic #English literature #elizabethan era #astrophil and Stella #the Defence of Poesy #literary criticism #Renaissance poetry #literary analysis #English Renaissance writer #sonnet sequences #arcadia Sidney #Literary works of Philip Sidney #renaissance humanism #Literary contributions of Sidney #Renaissance literary figures #Sidneyan sonnets #Literary legacy of Philip Sidney #literary theories of Sidney