Accessibility options


Sidney, Philip

Sidney, Philip

English poet and incompetent soldier. He wrote the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591), Arcadia (1590), a prose romance, and Apologie for Poetrie (1595). Politically, Sidney became a charismatic, but hardly powerful, figure supporting a ‘forward’ foreign policy that would help the Protestant Netherlands against the Spanish.

Sidney was born in Penshurst, Kent. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he rounded off his education by a tour around Europe in the company of Hubert Languet. He entered Parliament in 1581, and was knighted in 1583. In 1585 he was made governor of Vlissingen in the Netherlands, and died at Zutphen, fulfilling his desire of fighting the Spanish.

Sidney's reputation, which was high among a few writers and politicians (like Edmund Spenser) in his life, increased immeasurably after his death. He provided the nearest thing the English Calvinists had to a martyr for their cause; his life was mythologized by Fulke Greville.

© RM 2009. Helicon Publishing is division of RM.


 
 

Encyclopaedia Search

Click a letter for the index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Or search the encyclopaedia:
 
 
All results tagged with the symbol denotes content that is relevant to the national curriculum

Advertisement starts



Advertisement ends


Advertisement starts



Advertisement ends

Country Search

 
 

Dictionary search

 
 

Libya Flag

Libya Flag
The flag was said to represent the nation's hope for a green revolution in agriculture. Green expresses the people's Muslim faith. Effective date: 20 November 1977.

Health Search

 
 
Search all Diseases Medicines

Advertisement starts



Advertisement ends

Skip to page content | Text onlyGraphical version of this page

Tiscali Quicklinks. Please visit our Accessibility Page for a list of the Access Keys you can use to find your way around the site, skip directly to the main navigation, to the page content, or to more links within reference.

web |  shopping |  this site |  video |  local services

Page Footer


Access keys


You will need to use different key combinations in order to use access keys depending on your internet browser, find out which on our accessibility page.
  • (0) Navigate to Accessibility page.
  • (1) Navigate to Home page.
  • (2) Navigate to My email.
  • (3) Navigate to My Account.
  • (4) Navigate to Site Map page.
  • (5) Navigate to Contact us page.
  • (6) Navigate to Members channel.
  • (7) Navigate to Services channel.
  • (8) Navigate to News & Info channel.
  • (9) Navigate to Entertainment channel.
  • ([) Skip down to the Primary navigation block.
  • (]) Skip down to the more links within this section block.
  • (=) Bypass all navigation and jump to the content.
  • (x) Text only version of this page.
Background images used:
furniture images used in the site icons used in the site images used in the header