The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
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A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence. This young phenomenon-author, statesman, courtier, poet, and soldier-exchanged letters with some of the age's most influential figures. Includes general and textual introductions, biographical sketches, and notes.
No scholar knows this correspondence better than Kuin (York University, Toronto), whose impressive achievement in this long-awaited edition is to present all these letters in meticulously prepared texts with copious annotations and idiomatic translations.
Roger Kuin's handling of this diverse, scattered and highly allusive correspondence is outstanding. His technical descriptions of the letters are meticulous, his translations lucid, his pursuit of contextual detail often little shorto of astonishing.
This monumental and handsomely produced edition allows readers access to a captivating, far-reaching correspondence.
Roger Kuin has spent decades on these two massive volumes, and he deserves thanks from every student of English literature. These two volumes should have a place in every university library in the English-speaking world.
Roger Kuin is Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. He has edited Robert Langham's Letter, a pamphlet about the Earl of Leicester's spectacular reception of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle in 1575 and his 1998 study Chamber Music: Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism was a 'performance' of the sonnets of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. For forty years he has worked on the life, work, and personality of Philip Sidney.
No scholar knows this correspondence better than Kuin (York University, Toronto), whose impressive achievement in this long-awaited edition is to present all these letters in meticulously prepared texts with copious annotations and idiomatic translations.
Roger Kuin's handling of this diverse, scattered and highly allusive correspondence is outstanding. His technical descriptions of the letters are meticulous, his translations lucid, his pursuit of contextual detail often little shorto of astonishing.
This monumental and handsomely produced edition allows readers access to a captivating, far-reaching correspondence.
Roger Kuin has spent decades on these two massive volumes, and he deserves thanks from every student of English literature. These two volumes should have a place in every university library in the English-speaking world.
Roger Kuin is Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. He has edited Robert Langham's Letter, a pamphlet about the Earl of Leicester's spectacular reception of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle in 1575 and his 1998 study Chamber Music: Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism was a 'performance' of the sonnets of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. For forty years he has worked on the life, work, and personality of Philip Sidney.