Poets, Patrons, and Professors: Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers, and the Leiden Humanists

Thomson, Patricia; Dorsten, J. A. van

doi:10.2307/3721436

The Modern Language Review

1963

DOI: 10.2307/3721436

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Poets, Patrons, and Professors: Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers, and the Leiden Humanists

Patricia Thomson¹,

J. A. van Dorsten²

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Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Prophesying

Moore¹

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Sidney writes the Defence of Poesy at a time of considerable anxiety over prophetic speech: Queen Elizabeth had recently suppressed prophesying exercises and banned the prophetic Familist movement. Sidney's continual references to the relationship between poetry and prophecy, therefore, seem provocative. This essay explores Sidney's engagement with late-sixteenth-century controversies over inspiration and argues that he seeks to rehabilitate prophecy as a useful form of moral instruction. Sidney establishes the prophetic character of "right" poetry and comes close to defending the spiritual freedom also claimed by contemporary sectarians and some moderate evangelical prophets.

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Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Prophesying

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Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe: The Material Text and Early Modern Nationalism

Day¹

2007

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Sireno and Philisides: The Politics of Piety in Spanish Pastoral Romance and Sidney’s Old Arcadia

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This essay reevaluates how and why, in the Old Arcadia ’s Third and Fourth Eclogues, Sir Philip Sidney imitates and revises specific aspects of two Spanish pastoral romances: Jorge de Montemayor’s Diana (ca. 1559–60) and Gaspar Gil Polo’s Diana Enamorada (1564). Each respective portion of the two Spanish works cited above relates to the protagonist shepherd Sireno. These representations of Sireno bear an important relationship to Catholic Christian piety. And each representation relates to the respective author’s specific concerns with political patronage. Sidney blends and transforms those two Spanish Sireno models as a means to invent both his pastoral persona Philisides and the wedding of Lalus and Kala in his Old Arcadia ’s Eclogues. By this means, Sidney invents moderate Protestant representations of affective individual piety and of marriage, each implicitly complementing Philipp Melanchthon’s theology of synergism. This thesis builds upon recent work on Sidney’s Defence of Poesy for a refined perspective on the continuity between theory and practice in his oeuvre. The argument also sheds new light on the relationship between Philisides’s political discourse and his discourse about love. In the Old Arcadia , these Eclogues’ non-allegorical representation of virtue and their rhetoric about marriage supplement the work’s main narrative plane rather than moralize it or illuminate it philosophically.

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Poets, Patrons, and Professors: Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers, and the Leiden Humanists

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Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Prophesying

Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Prophesying

Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe: The Material Text and Early Modern Nationalism

Sireno and Philisides: The Politics of Piety in Spanish Pastoral Romance and Sidney’s Old Arcadia

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