Sir Philip Sidney and ArcadiaFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1991 - 158 pages This book rejects the Calvinist and deconstructionist interpretations of Sidney and argues instead for a man of humane and generous sympathies who thought deeply about human experience and the art and function of writing. |
Contents
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Stella and the Growth of the Heroine | 42 |
Sidney and the Characters of Women | 50 |
Telling the Tales | 70 |
New and Old | 115 |
Trial and Human Error | 127 |
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Page 17 - For, indeed, for severer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflingly handled. Your dear self can best witness the manner, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence, the rest by sheets sent unto you as fast as they were done.
Page 33 - ... should have it But Parthenia's it is, though dead. There I began: there I end all matter of affection. I hope I shall not long tarry after her, with whose beauty if I had only been in love, I should be so with you who have the same beauty. But it was Parthenia's self I loved and love, which no likeness can make one, no commandment dissolve, no foulness defile, nor no death finish.
Page 13 - This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls made worse by their clayey lodgings can be capable of.