Sir Philip Sidney: An Anthology of Modern Criticism - An Anthology of Modern Criticism

Zusatztext 'Dennis Kay provides an informative analysis of Sidney's pervasive influence on Shakespeare ... provides both new and informed students of Sidney with a stimulating range of critical approaches to all of his major works'Review of English Studies Klappentext In this collection, Dennis Kay brings together some of the more representative and stimulating studies of recent years, written by an international group of Sidney scholars. The essays have been selected both for their individual qualities and for their attention to the wide range of Sidney's art, including both the Old and New Arcadia, A Defence of Poetry, and Astrophil and Stella. Zusammenfassung This volume is designed to guide students of Sidney through the labyrinth of Sidney scholarship now available. Within the framework of a detailed bibliography and an account of Sidney's fluctuating reputation, it presents some of the more representative and stimulating studies of recent years. The essays have been selected both for their individual qualities and because, taken together, they cover a wide range of Sidney's art, and illustrate a variety of approaches to it. The essays should, like the texts they study, stimulate in their readers debate, argument, and real engagement with Sidney's masterpieces.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Kay, Dennis (Fellow and Tutor in English Kay, Jerald Ed Kay
• Assisted by: Dennis Kay (Editor), Kay Dennis (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.1987
• EAN: 9780198112044
• ISBN: 978-0-19-811204-4
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets