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- Title
The Nineteenth-Century Rediscovery of Sir Philip Sidney.
- Authors
BRENNAN, MICHAEL G.
- Abstract
This essay traces the decline in public appreciation of the writings and reputation of Sir Philip Sidney between the 1660s and 1730s and then the gradual resurgence in interest from the 1740s onwards, marked by the publication of Arthur Collins' Letters and Memorials of State (1746). The re-establishing of the Sidney's family fortunes and cultural importance owed much to the efforts of John Shelley-Sidney (1771-1849) who from the 1790s restored and refurbished the Sidney's ancestral home, Penshurst Place in Kent. From then onwards numerous poets, novelists, critics and biographers--including Robert Southey, Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Jane Porter, Thomas Zouch, Charles Lamb, Percy Shelley, Walter Savage Landor, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Butler, Henry Fox Bourne, Anthony Trollope and John Ruskin--explored and reinvigorated the literary reputation and legend of Sir Philip Sidney. This process also stimulated a marked increase in public interest in his writings and the publication of new editions which, in turn, laid the foundations for twentieth-century textual scholarship.
- Subjects
SIDNEY, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586; ENGLISH poets; BRITISH authors; LETTERS &; Memorials of State of the Sidney Family (Book); APPRECIATION of English literature; ELIZABETHAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Sidney Journal, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
1480-0926
- Publication type
Essay