Buy any 3 books from www.carcanet.co.uk and receive a FREE COPY of the Selected Writings of Philip Sidney (worth £9.95). This special offer is available until the end of December.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) was the first major poet-critic. A considerable figure in his day, he is still renowned for his three major literary works: The Defence of Poetry (the first great essay on poetry in English), Astrophil and Stella (one of the finest English sonnet sequences) and Arcadia ( a romance with a claim to be the first English novel). This Selected Writings includes the full text of the Defence of Poetry and Astrophil and Stella, fully annotated, with a selection of the other poems.

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