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I happened to be looking through Wordsworth the other day because I am writing an article for a sonnet collection, comparing Sidney's " With how sad steps. O moon..." with Wordsworth's imitation of it. In his letters (look in index) he complains about Dr. Johnson's omission of Spenser, Shakespeare and Sidney from The Lives of the Poets. Interesting both from Wordsworth's complaint and Johnson's omission. Take it for what it is worth. tpr ----- Original Message ----- From: [log in to unmask] Date: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:20 pm Subject: Re: The Popularity of Sidney's Apology > All --- > > I haven't consulted Donald Stump's bibliography of Sidney's > writings and it's not readily accessible to me, but from > conversations in past years I'm led to believe that it will hold > some clues to what Peter is asking about. I believe Don undertook > a census of editions, down to modern times, as (among other > things) a contribution to reception studies. > > I would be interested not only in editions, but in Sidney's ideas > as they were paraphrased, appropriated, and quarreled with, > beginning in the 1590s and down through the 17th c. Does Hoskyns > borrow from the Apology / Defence in his Directions? To what > extent is Bacon answering Sidney? > > What's to be found, pertinent to this, in Smith's 2-vol. > Elizabethan Critical Essays? In the introductory matter and > notes, as I recall (I gave the collection to a younger scholar > upon my retirement), there's a lot of information ancillary to the > points at issue between Gosson and Sidney. > > Cheers, Jon Quitslund (Geo. Washington U.) > > > > I pulled down Geoffrey Shepherd's edition to see whether his long > > introduction shed any light on your quick question, but it's he > focuses> on sources to the exclusion of influence. As for your > other point, > > though, he reminds us that "The _Apology_ was frequently reprinted > > during the seventeenth century in Sidney's collected works..." (2). > > > > Dennis Moore > > > > On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Peter C. Herman wrote: > > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > > > A quick question: when did Sidney's Apology become the > paradigmatic> > work on poetics? I just checked EEBO, and can find > no reprintings of > > > this text beyond Olney and Ponosonby. When did the work become > > > canonical? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Peter Herman >