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Though he spent only a brief period as a courtier of Elizabeth I, Sir Philip certainly cut a dashing figure. He also dashed off one of the most influential works of literary theory in English. And* *he was quite the dab hand at versifying. Today, we look at Sidney's *Defence of Poesie, *"Ye Goatherd Gods" from Arcadia, and sonnets from Astrophil and Stella.
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