Dear All,
I sent this announcement to the Spenser List about a month ago, but not to
the Sidney List, as I thought it was defunct. Now that two have become one,
I take the liberty of resending it so that the announcement will reach as
many Sidneans as possible.
Peter C. Herman
Dear All,
>I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of _Sir Philip Sidney's
>"Apology for Poetry" and "Astrophil and Stella": Texts and Contexts_. This
>edition is designed for classroom use. To quote the catalogue copy:
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>This edition presents together Sir Philip Sidney's path-breaking sonnet
>sequence, Astrophil and Stella, and his response to the many attacks on
>poetry current in early modern England, the Apology for Poetry. The
>introduction provides biographical and historical contexts for reading
>Sidney's works, and to help students explore how the Apology arises from
>and intervenes in the "Quarrel over Poetry," this volume provides
>substantial excerpts from such texts as Plato's Republic, Scaliger's
>Poetics, Gosson's The School of Abuse, and Richard Willes's A Disputation
>Concerning Poetry (the first extended discussion of poetry published in
>England). This edition also includes excerpts from Sidney's letters to his
>brother, Robert, and his friend, Sir Edward Denny. All the texts are newly
>edited, annotated, and modernized
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>The table of contents is reproduced below. For further information or for
>a complimentary examination copy, please contact College Publishing 12309
>Lynwood Drive Glen Allen, VA 23059 USA. (804) 364-8410 Fax: (804) 364-8408.
>
>I hope the members of this list will find this a useful edition.
>
>Peter C. Herman
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>Sir Philip Sidney's "Apology for Poetry and "Astrophil and Stella": Texts
>and Contexts
>Edited by Peter C. Herman
>San Diego State University
>
>Introduction
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>1. An Apology for Poetry
>2. Astrophil and Stella
>3. From Sidney's Letter to Edward Denny and From Sidney's Letter to
>Robert Sidney
>4. The Quarrel Over Poetry: Selected Attacks and Defenses
>i. Plato, from the Republic and the Laws
>ii. Boccaccio, from Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, Book 14
>iii. Juan Luis Vives, from Truth Dressed Up, or of Poetic License: To
>What Extent Poets May Be Permitted to Vary from the Truth
>iv. Sir Thomas Elyot, from The Defense of Good Women
>v. Julius Caesar Scaliger, from Poetics
>vi. Richard Willes, from A Disputation Concerning Poetry
>vii. Theodore Beza, "A Sportful Comparison between Poets and Papists,"
>from Flowers of Epigrams
>viii. Theodore Beza, from The Sacrifice of Abraham
>ix. Stephen Gosson, from The School of Abuse
>x. Edmund Spenser, from Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, Two Other Very
>Commendable Letters of the Same Men's Writing: Both Touching the Foresaid
>Artificial Versifying
>xi. George Puttenham, from The Art of English Poesy
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>5. Suggestions for Further Reading
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