Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney is the first of the famous English sonnet sequences, and contains 108 sonnets and 11 songs.
Newsam was skilled in his craft, and was on familiar terms with Sir Philip Sidney and other men of influence at court.
; he wrote the histories of the Royal Warwickshire and the Middlesex Regiments; and he edited the first volume on the manuscripts of Lord De L'isle and Dudley in the publications of the Historical MSS.
An authority on the Elizabethan courtier poet Sir Philip Sidney, Kalstone also lectured and wrote about 20th-century poets including Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
In Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, Norbrook explains the political context and events that influenced writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton.
After his study, Baudius became part of an envoy to England, where he stayed from 1583 to 1585 and where he formed a friendship with the poet Philip Sidney, introduced by Daniel Rogers.
Philip Sidney, an ambassador of Queen Elizabeth I of England, convinced John Casimir to begin the formation of a league of the Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire.
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, played a major role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms including time as Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1646 to 1647 under the courtesy title Lord Lisle
He studied the humanities at Princeton University (A.B. 1956) and participated in Army R.O.T.C. After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer he attended New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard for thesis titled Sir Philip Sidney: The Styles of Love.
On 15 November 1980, he married Isobel Tresyllian Compton, the youngest daughter of the civil servant Sir Edmund Compton.
These were the features Philip Sidney deplored in his complaint against the "mungrell Tragy-comedie" of the 1580s, and of which Shakespeare's Polonius offers famous testimony: "The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men."
Having been fortified the town withstood several sieges, specially during the wars of freedom waged by the Dutch against Spain, the most celebrated fight under its walls being the Battle of Zutphen in September 1586 when Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded.
Philip II of Spain | Philip K. Dick | John Philip Sousa | Philip II | Philip Roth | Philip IV of Spain | Sidney Poitier | Philip II of Macedon | Philip | Philip Bradbourn | Philip Catherine | Prince Philip | Sidney Lumet | Philip V of Spain | Sidney Nolan | Philip Pullman | Philip Sheridan | Philip Larkin | Philip IV of France | Sidney Bechet | Philip the Good | Philip Sidney | Philip Marlowe | Philip IV | Philip III of Spain | Philip Hammond | Philip Webb | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Sidney Crosby | Philip the Apostle |
Controversial literature was amenable to such continuations, as evidenced most especially by the Martin Marprelate affair; Philip Sidney's Arcadia was continued by Anna Weamys.
The poets involved cannot all be identified, since there are a number of poems marked as 'anonymous': they do include Edmund Bolton, William Byrd, Henry Chettle, Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Anthony Munday, George Peele, Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Wootton, William Smith.
In England he received the patronage of Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Christopher Hatton when he became interested in publishing Renaissance works.
Among the sixteenth-century luminaries who were familiar with the work and drew upon it in their own writings were John Leland, John Bale, Abraham Ortelius, Henry Sidney, Philip Sidney, Edmund Campion, Hooker, Holinshed, Hanmer, William Herbert and William Camden.
His son Sir William Temple (1555–1627) was secretary to Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Essex and afterwards provost of Trinity College, Dublin.