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: -Sidney penned several major works of the Elizabethan era, including Astrophel and Stella, the first Elizabethan sonnet cycle, and Arcadia, a heroic prose romance. He was also known for his literary criticism, known as The Defense of Poesy.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586 of an infected thigh wound that he obtained in a battle against the Spanish. Sidney is said to have had an elaborate and expensive funeral procession (Greenblatt 1037). As a beloved courtier, Sidney was mourned throughout England.