ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Philip Sidney, (born November 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, England-died October 17, 1586, Arnhem, Netherlands), Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was one of the finest poets of the English Renaissance and a pioneer of the sonnet form and English love poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -His finest achievement was a sequence of 108 love sonnets. These owe much to Petrarch and Pierre de Ronsard in tone and style, and place Sidney as the greatest Elizabethan sonneteer after Shakespeare.

Detailed explanation-4: -Introduction: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), the Victorian poet and critic, was ‘the first modern critic’ [1], and could be called ‘the critic’s critic’, being a champion not only of great poetry, but of literary criticism itself.