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The Defence of Poesie, Political Discourses, Correspondence and Translation

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  • Page extent: 378 pages
  • Size: 216 x 140 mm
  • Weight: 0.48 kg
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 (ISBN-13: 9780521158336)

  • There was also a Hardback of this title but it is no longer available
  • Published August 2012

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Feuillerat's edition of the complete works of Sir Philip Sidney in the series Cambridge English Classics has long been out of print. It has however been reissued with the omission of the poetical works. The prose works are divided among the four volumes as follows: volume 1, Arcadia, 1590; volume 2, Arcadia, 1593 and The Lady of May; volume 3, The Defences of Poesie, Political Discourses, Correspondence and Translation; volume 4, Arcadia (original version.)

Contents

Facsimile of Sir Philip Sidney's handwriting (reproduced, by permission, from a letter in the possession of Mr Frank T. Sabin); 1. The Defence of Poesie; 2. A Discourse on Irish Affairs; 3. A Discourse of Syr Ph. S. to the Queenes Majesty; 4. Defence of the Earl of Leicester; 5. Correspondence; 6. Translation: A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion; Appendix; Notes; A list of misprints, etc., which have been corrected; Index of names.

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