Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney is writing 200 years before the ..... revolution, he presents a very inward and self-absorbed narrator in Astrophil and Stella.

CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

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Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney is writing 200 years before the ____ revolution, he presents a very inward and self-absorbed narrator in “Astrophil and Stella.”

A	Medieval
B	Victorian
C	Romantic
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -In this sonnet, Sidney – narrating as Astrophil – is expressing that he hopes his pity will win over his desired lover, Stella, and he is attempting to convey is love for her in verse. Hence, this poem touches on the theme of the value of poetry, which Shakespeare and Spenser did as well.

Detailed explanation-2: -Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegy upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney is a poem by the English poet Edmund Spenser.

Detailed explanation-3: -Astrophel and Stella, an Elizabethan sonnet sequence of 108 sonnets, interspersed with 11 songs, by Sir Philip Sidney, written in 1582 and published posthumously in 1591.

Detailed explanation-4: -In “Astrophil and Stella” one of the themes presented is love against desire (“Astrophil and Stella”). Astrophil is deeply in love with Stella, but the feelings aren’t reciprocated. This love eventually turns into desire he can’t seem to control, which leads to an end to their platonic relationship.

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