Sir Philip Sidney (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Although Sir Philip Sidney’s best-known work is Astrophel and Stella, his
major work and the one to which he devoted most of his literary energy and much of his political
frustration was Arcadia (originally titled The Countess of Pembroke’s
Arcadia). This long, much-revised epic prose romance was written and revised between 1578
and 1586; it was first published in an unfinished version in 1590, again in 1593 in a revised and
imperfect version, and repeatedly in many editions for more than a century. The equivalent in
prose of [The entire page is 6566 words long]
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