PREFACE NOTE ON THE TEXT INTRODUCTION1 Edward Waterhouse Letter to Sir Henry Sidney, 1577 2 Philip Sidney 3 Gabriel Harvey 4 Edmund Spenser Two Other very commendable letters, 1580 5 Thomas Howell Howell His Devises, for his owne exercise, and his Friends pleasure, 1581 6 George Puttenham The Arte of English Poesie, c. 1584 7 William Temple 98 Analysis of A Defence of Poetry, c. 1584â"68 Geoffrey Whitney A Choice of Emblemes, 1586 9 Fulke Greville Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, 1586 10 Matthew Roydon âAn Elegie, or friends passion, for his Astrophillâ, c. 1586â"9 11 King James VI of Scotland âIn Philippi Sidnaei interitumâ¦â, Academiae Cantabrigiensis lachrymaeâ¦, 1587 12 George Whetstone Sir Phillip Sidney, his honorable life, his valiant death, and true vertues, 1587 13 Angel Day Upon the Life and Death of the Most Worthy, and Thrise Renowmed Knight, Sir PHILLIP SIDNEY, 1587 14 Edmund Molyneux âHistorical Remembrance of the Sidneysâ¦â, 1587 15 Sir John Harington Ludovico Ariostoâs Orlando Furioso, 1591 16 Thomas Newman âToâ¦his very good Freende, Ma. Frauncis Flowerâ, 1591 17 Thomas Nashe 18 Edmund Spenser Astrophel, 1591â"5 19 Gabriel Harvey Antient and Lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, 1598 20 Hugh Sanford âTo the Readerâ, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1593 21 Thomas Moffet Nobilisâ¦,1593â"4 22 John King Lectures Upon Jonas, 1594 23 Henry Olney âTo the Readerâ, An Apologie for Poetrie, 1595 24 Gervase Markham The English Arcadia, 1597? 25 Francis Meres Palladis Tamia, 1598 26 Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 27 Ben Jonson 28 John Hoskyns Directions for Speech and Style, c. 1599â"1600 29 Brian Twyne Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 263, c. 1600? 30 William Vaughan The Golden-Grove, 1600 166 31 John Florio Epistle to the Second Book, The Essayesâ¦of Michaell de Montaigneâ¦, 1603 32 Matthew Gwynne âTo the Honorably-vertuous Ladie, La: Penelope Richeâ, The Essayesâ¦of Michaell de Montaigne, 1603 33 Dudley Digges Paradoxes, or Politique Discourses, 1604 34 Richard Carew âThe Excellencie of the English Tongueâ, 1605â"14 35 Alexander Craig The Amorose Songes, Sonets and Elegies, 1606 36 John Day The Ile of Guls, 1606 37 Heroical Epistles Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Poet. f. 9, 1607â"23? 38 Wiliam Heale An Apologie for Women, 1609 39 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney, c. 1610â"12 40 âThus far the worthy Authorâ¦â The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1613 41 Sir William Alexander (Earl of Stirling) 42 Lady Mary Wroth The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, 1621 43 Loveâs Changelingsâ Change British Library, MS Egerton 1994, 1621> 44 James Johnstoun âA Supplement to the third booke of Arcadiaâ, 1621â"5? 45 John Donne âUpon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sisterâ, 1621â"31 46 Sir Richard Beling A Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1624 47 âUpon Sydneis Arcadiaâ âUpon Sydneis Arcadia sent to his m.rsâ, c. 1625â"50 48 Michael Drayton âTo my most dearely-loved friend HENERY REYNOLDS Esquire, of Poets and Poesieâ, 1627 49 Francis Quarles Argalus and Parthenia, 1629 50 Thomas Powell Tom of All Trades: or, The Plaine Path-way to Preferment, 1631 51 Antony Stafford âTo the Noble Readerâ, The Guide of Honour, 1634 52 Edmund Waller âTo the Ladiesâ, The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, 1638 55 Anne Bradstreet âAn Elegie upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidneyâ¦â, 1638 56 James Shirley A Pastorall Called the Arcadia, <1639 57 A Draught of Sir Phillip Sidneys Arcadia A Draught of Sir Phillip Sidneyâs Arcadia, 1644? 58 John Milton 247 Eikonoklastes, 164959 Thomas Moore The Arcadian Lovers: or, Metamorphoses of Princes, 60 Anne Weamys A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydneyâs Arcadia, 1651 61 âPhilophilipposâ âThe Life and Death of Sir Philip Sidneyâ, 1655 62 Charles Cotton âThe Surprizeâ, c. 1655â"60 63 John Aubrey 64 John Dryden (c) A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, 1693 65 Edward Phillips Theatrum Poetarum: or, A Compleat Collection of Poets, 1675 66 Life of Spenser âA Summary of the Life of Mr. Edmond Spenserâ, 1679 67 D.Tyndale âKey of Pembrokeâs Arcadiaâ, 1687 68 Sir William Temple âEssay IV. Of Poetryâ, 1690 69 Anthony Wood Athenae Oxonienses, 1691 70 âJ.N.â The Famous History of Heroick Acts: or, The Honour of Chivalry. Being an Abstract of Pembrokeâs Arcadia, 1701 71 D.Stanley Sir Philip Sidneyâs Arcadia, Modernizâd by Mrs. Stanley, 1725 72 Elizabeth Montagu Letter to Mary Pendarves, 1742 73 John Upton Critical Observations on Shakespeare, 1746 74 McNamara Morgan Philoclea: A Tragedy, 1754 75 Samuel Johnson 76 âPhilisidesâ The Shepherdâs Calenderâ¦The Subjects partly taken from the select Pastorals of Spencer, and Sir Philip Sidney,1758 77 Horace Walpole âSir Fulke Greville, Lord Brookeâ, 1758 78 The History of Argalus and Parthenia The History of Argalus and Partheniaâ¦, c. 1760â"85 79 The Gentlemanâs Magazine The Gentlemanâs Magazine, 1767 80 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Letter to Thomas Grenville, 1772 81 Clara Reeve The Progress of Romanceâ¦, 1785 82 William Cowper The Task, 1785 83 Charles Lamb Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, 1808 84 Thomas Zouch Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney, 1808 85 The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1808 The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1808, 1809 86 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 87 Sir Egerton Brydges âMemoir of Sir Philip Sidneyâ, 1810 88 James Crossley âThe Countesse of Pembrokeâs Arcadiaâ¦â, 1820 89 William Hazlitt Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, 1820 90 Charles Lamb âDefence of the Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydneyâ, 1823 91 Peter George Patmore? âPenshurst Castle, and Sir Philip Sydney,â 1823 92 Nathan Drake Mornings in Spring; or, Retrospectives, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, 1828 93 William Gray âThe Life of Sir Philip Sidneyâ, 1829 94 Henry HallamIntroduction to the Literature of Europe, during the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, 1839 95 Isaac DâIsraeli Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, 1841 96 William Stigant 1858 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Index