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:
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
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
Sir Philip Sidney's "Apology for Poetry and "Astrophil and Stella": Texts
and Contexts
Edited by Peter C. Herman
San Diego State University
Introduction
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
5. Suggestions for Further Reading
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