First published in 1984, Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture is a collection of essays which reflect the diversity of contemporary approaches to the controversial figure of Sir Philip Sidney, and range from the historicist to the revisionist.
Introduction Credits Contributors 1. Speaking Pictures 2. The Meeting of the Muses 3. Divided Aims in the Revised Arcadia 4. Astrophils Stella and Stellas Astrophil 5. Sidneian Indirection 6. The Rewriting of Petrarch 7. Unending Desire 8. What May Words Say 9. Sidneys Presence in Lyric Verse of the Later English Renaissance 10. The Cultural Politics of the Defence of Poetry Index