San Antonio College Library

"It is one of the curious facts of his literary history that Sir Phillip Sidney, who Astrophel and Stella marks the beginning of the vogue for sonnet cycles in England, stands almost at the end of a highly sophisticated tradition in Europe. Praised by his contemporaries as the English Petrarch, he shows ironic regard for a tradition, Italian and French, of which he is one of the last representatives. As Mr. Kalstone says in his preface, Sidney has...