We chat with Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle MBE about growing up in Penshurst Place and the challenges of running the estate today.
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Four women who wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff refutes the claim by Virginia Woolf, that the women of Tudor England left only empty bookshelves.
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Icy posturing? ... Sir Philip Sidney. Image: Corbis. I've been returning to Sir Philip Sidney's neglected Astrophil and Stella (which,...
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Sir Philip Sidney charmed earlier generations of readers, not least through his personal qualities: his courtesy and soldierly valour.
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Experimenting with the possibilities of the sonnet form, this playful work deploys the rules of grammar as a wooing technique.
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The grammatical unexpectedness of the very first line arrests our attention in this stellar poem about the moon and sighing lovers.
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A lover's lament to personified 'Absence', the melancholy here is contained by a remarkably elegant rhetorical technique.
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Philip Sidney's life was an extraordinary mix of bisexual revelry, shady networking and literary skill. Reading Alan Stewart's biography, you'd never guess it.
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Few of us can imagine growing up and living so immersed in nearly seven centuries of history. But that's exactly what Dr Hon Philip Sidney…
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Matthew de Clermont and Diana Bishop travel back to the Elizabethan era in A Discovery of Witches, where he is a member of the School of...
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