INTRODUCTION
abetulations to illiam of Orange on t c impression leader of men is s aftero Queen Elizabet;t if y and greatest counsellors of State in P to trial of il y o employ tleman, eit ;
Sidney returned from time of ure, in ter Mary, ty years old, , Earl of Pembroke, and ess of Pembroke ilton, about train. Spenser described ;tlest s lives t resembling, bot, ;
Ben Jonson, long after e upon ap;Underneat of all verse, Sidneys sister, Pembrokes mot slain anotime s at t;
Sidneys sister became Pembrokes motaying ilton. ten a long argument to t t of politic to seem to favour. S resented, or appeared to resent, rusion of advice; ented seemed to be for a time. t time of seclusion, after t er at ilton. togeto e for ; It was never finished.
Mucten at ilton in t in 1581, ten, as ter to ;only for you, only to you . . . for severer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, triflingly ness ts of paper, most of it in your presence, t by ss sent unto you as fast as t; t it s it sroyed; but it belonged to a sister ess of Pembrokes Arcadia.quot;
ted in tten in 1581, ;Arcadiaquot; ill being sent to ilton. But it differs ;Arcadia.quot; Sidneys quot;Arcadiaquot; erary interest as t important example of toral of inct scion. But ts aut play, it folloended to extravagance of ingenuity. t;Defence of Poesyquot; erest as t important piece of literary criticism in our literature. . yle is ravagance in , and manly; not t tful and refined for its unaffected simp