Poet Profile
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, renowned as a leading figure of the Elizabethan age. He authored the sonnet sequence 'Astrophil and Stella' and the treatise 'The Defence of Poesy'. Sidney died fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands, and his funeral was notably grand.
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Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,