The complete poems of Sir Philip Sidney Volume 2 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... vol. ii. note. For reasons stated in the Preface (vol. I.), the text followed in the Poems from 'Arcadia' is that of 1613; but throughout I have had before me those of 1590, 1593, 1598, 1605, 1621, 1623, 1627, 1655, and later. In Notes and Illustrations to the poems in this division such few various readings as seemed noticeable are recorded. No. xxix., which appeared in the 1590 edition of Arcadia, was suppressed in all after-editions. No. Ixviii., which Mr. Collier, in his 'Poetical Decameron' (s. n.), quotes from Harington's Orlando Furioso as 'omitted in the folio Arcadias,' does occur in the edition of 1598 and subsequently. No. xl. is placed among the 'Certaine Sonets,' &c., as well as in the Arcadia itself, in 1605 and other editions. As explained in the places, the two closing pieces of the series are derived from other sources--the last never before printed. We give these Poems in the order of their occurrence in the Arcadia, and as in Astrophel and Stella, and throughout, have furnished headings to those that have none in the original, fetched from the prose context. The Arcadia Poems lose almost nothing by being separated from the prose, albeit the student-reader will occasionally perhaps wish to consult it. The following is the title-page, &c. of our text (1613), as explained supra: 'The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now the fovrth time published, with some new additions. London Imprinted by H. L. for Mathcw Ltrwncs, 1613,' within a wood-cut border, introducing the Sidney 'Boar' (bis), with the motto, 'Spiro non tibi.' Title-page and Epistle of H. S. (unpaged), two leaves; Arcadia, pp. 1-471; Certaine Sonets, pp. 472490; The Defence of Poesie, pp. 491-518; Astrophel and Stella, pp....