Sir Philip Sidney - Penshurst and Poetry

Hi Reading Detectives,

Another Kent Find! Sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/

 

The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent.

 

William Cowper in 'The Task' (1785) mentions 'Sidney, warbler of poetic prose' and Percy Bysshe Shelley introduces Sir Philip into his 'Adonais' on the death of Keats (1821) calling him a 'Spirit without spot'. Robert Southey composed an Epitaph on Algernon Sidney in 1798 and Algernon Swinburne, writing in the heyday of romantic Victorian poetry, produced in 'Astropjel. After reading Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in the garden of an old English manor house.'

 

22 September 2009 from Michelle

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