LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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“Astrophil and Stella”
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“Utopia”
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“Paradise Lost”
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“Canterbury Tales”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shortly after writing The Defense of Poesy, Sidney wrote Astrophil and Stella which is widely considered to be the first of the great Elizabethan sonnet sequences.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -And what if this was an accident? Standard literary history says sonnets were introduced to English by Sir Thomas Wyatt in the 1520s and 30s, and first widely circulated in English in the 1557 publication of Tottel’s Miscellany.
Detailed explanation-4: -Astrophil and Stella is an innovative take on the Petrarchan sonnet sequence, and it inaugurated a craze for sequences that culminated in the crowning glory of Renaissance poetry: Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Detailed explanation-5: -Astrophil and Stella is a sequence of sonnets and songs written by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586).