Böcker av Philip Sidney

Feuillerat's edition of the complete works of Sir Philip Sidney in the series Cambridge English Classics are reissued. The prose works are divided among the four volumes as follows: 1 Arcadia, 1590; 2 Arcadia, 1593 and The Lady of May; 3 The Defences of Poesie...; 4 Arcadia (original version).

Feuillerat's edition of the complete works of Sir Philip Sidney in the series Cambridge English Classics are reissued. The prose works are divided among the four volumes as follows: 1 Arcadia, 1590; 2 Arcadia, 1593 and The Lady of May; 3 The Defences of Poesie...; 4 Arcadia (original version).

Feuillerat's edition of the complete works of Sir Philip Sidney in the series Cambridge English Classics are reissued. The prose works are divided among the four volumes as follows: 1 Arcadia, 1590; 2 Arcadia, 1593 and The Lady of May; 3 The Defences of Poesie...; 4 Arcadia (original version).

Feuillerat's edition of the complete works of Sir Philip Sidney in the series Cambridge English Classics.

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose, including The Defence of Poesy, substantial parts of both versions of the Arcadia, and the whole of the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella.

Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all manner of complications, both comic and serious, ensue. Part-pastoral romance, part-heroic epic, Sidney's long narrative work was hugely popular for centuries after its first publication in 1593, inspiring two sequels and countless imitations, and contributing greatly to the development of the novel.