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Sequence Attitudes Love Strophil Stella Sonnet Sidney Printed

Philip Sidney's 1582 sonnet sequence "Astrophel and Stella" features 108 sonnets and 11 songs detailing an unrequited love affair and commenting on love poetry conventions.

Philip Sidney's "Astrophel and Stella" (1582) is a sonnet sequence of 108 sonnets and 11 songs, exploring an unsuccessful courtship and critiquing contemporary love poetry.

Front Strophil and Stella
Back a sonnet sequence
Sidney 1582 not printed till 1591
a preface by Thomas Nashe introduced it as the tragicomedy of love......the argument cruel chastity, the prologue hope, the epilogue despair.
108 sonnets and 11 songs
the sequence presents an unsuccessful courtship in a series of emotional attitudes
it is also implicitly, a critical account of conventional attitudes to love and love poetry in the late 16th

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