num_pages: 180
description: When Sidney died, writes Richard Dutton, those who mourned him did so as a hero of Protestant Europe, a model of Christian virtue, of the Renaissance scholar-poet, of the true knight. Dutton corrects the exaggerations in the popular view, painting a human, fallible and credible figure.
language: English
title: Selected Writings: Astrophil and Stella, the Defense of Poesy and Miscellanious Poems
titlecomplete: Selected Writings: Astrophil and Stella, the Defense of Poesy and Miscellanious Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Carcanet Pr