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Sidney, Sir Philip
(b. Penshurst, Kent, November 29th, 1554; d. Zutphen, October 7th, 1586). “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” (1590); “Astrophel and Stella” (1591); “An Apologie for Poetrie” (1595); “Works,” edited by Gray (1829), and Grosart (1877). His “Correspondence with Hubert Lauguet” was translated from the Latin by Pears in 1845. See the Biographies by Fulke Greville (1652), Zouch (1808), Lloyd (1862), H. R. Fox-Bourne (1862), and J. A. Symonds. See also Collins’s “Sidney Papers,” Walpole’s “Royal and Noble Authors,” Lamb’s prose “Works,” Hallam’s “Literary History,” Hazlitt’s “Age of Elizabeth,” Masson’s “English Novelists,” “Cambridge Essays” (1858), and Morley’s “English Writers,” vols. ix., x., and xi.
