Sidney: The Critical Heritage

Martin Garrett has worked mainly on English Renaissance literature and theatre; he is the editor of Massinger: the Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1991). In other areas his publications include Greece: a Literary Companion (1994), and he is now working on a literary companion to Italy and a volume of Interviews and Recollections of the Brownings.

• PREFACE NOTE ON THE TEXT INTRODUCTION1 Edward Waterhouse Letter to Sir Henry Sidney, 1577 2 Philip Sidney 3 Gabriel Harvey 4 Edmund Spenser Two Other very commendable letters, 1580 5 Thomas Howell Howell His Devises, for his owne exercise, and his Friends pleasure, 1581 6 George Puttenham The Arte of English Poesie, c. 1584 7 William Temple 98 Analysis of A Defence of Poetry, c. 1584–68 Geoffrey Whitney A Choice of Emblemes, 1586 9 Fulke Greville Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, 1586 10 Matthew Roydon ‘An Elegie, or friends passion, for his Astrophill’, c. 1586–9 11 King James VI of Scotland ‘In Philippi Sidnaei interitum…’, Academiae Cantabrigiensis lachrymae…, 1587 12 George Whetstone Sir Phillip Sidney, his honorable life, his valiant death, and true vertues, 1587 13 Angel Day Upon the Life and Death of the Most Worthy, and Thrise Renowmed Knight, Sir PHILLIP SIDNEY, 1587 14 Edmund Molyneux ‘Historical Remembrance of the Sidneys…’, 1587 15 Sir John Harington Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, 1591 16 Thomas Newman ‘To…his very good Freende, Ma. Frauncis Flower’, 1591 17 Thomas Nashe 18 Edmund Spenser Astrophel, 1591–5 19 Gabriel Harvey Antient and Lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, 1598 20 Hugh Sanford ‘To the Reader’, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1593 21 Thomas Moffet Nobilis…,1593–4 22 John King Lectures Upon Jonas, 1594 23 Henry Olney ‘To the Reader’, An Apologie for Poetrie, 1595 24 Gervase Markham The English Arcadia, 1597? 25 Francis Meres Palladis Tamia, 1598 26 Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 27 Ben Jonson 28 John Hoskyns Directions for Speech and Style, c. 1599–1600 29 Brian Twyne Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 263, c. 1600? 30 William Vaughan The Golden-Grove, 1600 166 31 John Florio Epistle to the Second Book, The Essayes…of Michaell de Montaigne…, 1603 32 Matthew Gwynne ‘To the Honorably-vertuous Ladie, La: Penelope Riche’, The Essayes…of Michaell de Montaigne, 1603 33 Dudley Digges Paradoxes, or Politique Discourses, 1604 34 Richard Carew ‘The Excellencie of the English Tongue’, 1605–14 35 Alexander Craig The Amorose Songes, Sonets and Elegies, 1606 36 John Day The Ile of Guls, 1606 37 Heroical Epistles Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Poet. f. 9, 1607–23? 38 Wiliam Heale An Apologie for Women, 1609 39 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney, c. 1610–12 40 ‘Thus far the worthy Author…’ The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1613 41 Sir William Alexander (Earl of Stirling) 42 Lady Mary Wroth The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, 1621 43 Love’s Changelings’ Change British Library, MS Egerton 1994, 1621> 44 James Johnstoun ‘A Supplement to the third booke of Arcadia’, 1621–5? 45 John Donne ‘Upon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister’, 1621–31 46 Sir Richard Beling A Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1624 47 ‘Upon Sydneis Arcadia’ ‘Upon Sydneis Arcadia sent to his m.rs’, c. 1625–50 48 Michael Drayton ‘To my most dearely-loved friend HENERY REYNOLDS Esquire, of Poets and Poesie’, 1627 49 Francis Quarles Argalus and Parthenia, 1629 50 Thomas Powell Tom of All Trades: or, The Plaine Path-way to Preferment, 1631 51 Antony Stafford ‘To the Noble Reader’, The Guide of Honour, 1634 52 Edmund Waller ‘To the Ladies’, The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, 1638 55 Anne Bradstreet ‘An Elegie upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney…’, 1638 56 James Shirley A Pastorall Called the Arcadia, <1639 57 A Draught of Sir Phillip Sidneys Arcadia A Draught of Sir Phillip Sidney’s Arcadia, 1644? 58 John Milton 247 Eikonoklastes, 164959 Thomas Moore The Arcadian Lovers: or, Metamorphoses of Princes, 60 Anne Weamys A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney’s Arcadia, 1651 61 ‘Philophilippos’ ‘The Life and Death of Sir Philip Sidney’, 1655 62 Charles Cotton ‘The Surprize’, c. 1655–60 63 John Aubrey 64 John Dryden (c) A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, 1693 65 Edward Phillips Theatrum Poetarum: or, A Compleat Collection of Poets, 1675 66 Life of Spenser ‘A Summary of the Life of Mr. Edmond Spenser’, 1679 67 D.Tyndale ‘Key of Pembroke’s Arcadia’, 1687 68 Sir William Temple ‘Essay IV. Of Poetry’, 1690 69 Anthony Wood Athenae Oxonienses, 1691 70 ‘J.N.’ The Famous History of Heroick Acts: or, The Honour of Chivalry. Being an Abstract of Pembroke’s Arcadia, 1701 71 D.Stanley Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Moderniz’d by Mrs. Stanley, 1725 72 Elizabeth Montagu Letter to Mary Pendarves, 1742 73 John Upton Critical Observations on Shakespeare, 1746 74 McNamara Morgan Philoclea: A Tragedy, 1754 75 Samuel Johnson 76 ‘Philisides’ The Shepherd’s Calender…The Subjects partly taken from the select Pastorals of Spencer, and Sir Philip Sidney,1758 77 Horace Walpole ‘Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke’, 1758 78 The History of Argalus and Parthenia The History of Argalus and Parthenia…, c. 1760–85 79 The Gentleman’s Magazine The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1767 80 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Letter to Thomas Grenville, 1772 81 Clara Reeve The Progress of Romance…, 1785 82 William Cowper The Task, 1785 83 Charles Lamb Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, 1808 84 Thomas Zouch Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney, 1808 85 The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1808 The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1808, 1809 86 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 87 Sir Egerton Brydges ‘Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney’, 1810 88 James Crossley ‘The Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia…’, 1820 89 William Hazlitt Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, 1820 90 Charles Lamb ‘Defence of the Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney’, 1823 91 Peter George Patmore? ‘Penshurst Castle, and Sir Philip Sydney,’ 1823 92 Nathan Drake Mornings in Spring; or, Retrospectives, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, 1828 93 William Gray ‘The Life of Sir Philip Sidney’, 1829 94 Henry HallamIntroduction to the Literature of Europe, during the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, 1839 95 Isaac D’Israeli Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, 1841 96 William Stigant 1858 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Index