This book contain collection of 2 books 1. A Defence of Poesie
2. Poems
About the Author
Philip Sidney, 15541586
Poet and romancist, son of Sir Henry Sidney, Deputy of Ireland, and Pres. of Wales, born at the family seat of Penshurst, and educated at Shrewsbury School and oxford He was at the french Court on the fateful August 24, 1572 the massacre of St. Bartholomew but left Paris soon thereafter and went to Germany and Italy. In 1576 he was with his father in Ireland, and the next year went on missions to the Elector Palatine and the Emperor Rudolf II. When his fathers Irish policy was called in question, he wrote an able defence of it. He became the friend of Spenser, who dedicated to him his Shepherds calendar In 1580 he lost the favour of the Queen by remonstrating against her proposed marriage with the Duke of Anjou. His own marriage with a daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham took place in 1583. In 1585 he was engaged in the war in the Low Countries, and met his death at Zutphen from a wound in the thigh. His death was commemorated by Spenser in his Astrophel. Sidney has always been considered as the type of english chivalry; and his extraordinary contemporary reputation rested on his personal qualities of nobility and generosity.