PPS This reminds me to say that The Faerie Queene is dedicated to Queen
Elizabeth while she is alive, but that the dedication is in the
recognizable form of a funeral urn -- she will become, like Belphoebe, an
example dead. jcn
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:28:20 +0100
Penny McCarthy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mary Sidney (the ever-forgotten) dedicates her and Philip's Psalms 'To the
> Angell spirit of the most excellent Sir Phillip Sidney'. Indeed, this
>could
> have been Greville's model - if he needed one. My feeling is that as they
> both adored Philip, it was natural for them to dedicate their work to him,
> even when dead.
>
> Penny McCarthy.
>
>
>
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