| 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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