Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent...
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William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (23 May 1909 – 5 April 1991), known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945 and 1956, was a British Army...
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literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors...
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Philip Sidney, 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (28 January 1828 – 17 February 1898), was an English hereditary peer. Sidney was born in London, England...
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Kingdom and his longtime mistress Dorothea Jordan. She was married to Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, and had four surviving children. Shortly...
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Philip John Algernon Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle (born 21 April 1945), is a British hereditary peer and former soldier. Lord De L'Isle is the only...
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Viscount De L'Isle (redirect from Shelley-Sidney baronets)
in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. His son and heir apparent, Philip Sidney, represented Eye in the House of Commons. In 1835, fourteen years before...
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Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English poet, courtier and soldier. Philip Sidney may also refer to: Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1619–1698)...
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Philip Charles Shelley Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (11 March 1800 – 4 March 1851), was a British Tory politician. Sidney was the only son of...
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Penshurst Place (section Sidney family)
ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poets and courtiers, siblings Mary Sidney and Philip Sidney. The original...
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miles (160 km) south of Toledo, the city is named after English poet Philip Sidney, and many of the city's elementary schools are named after famous writers...
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Sir Philip Sidney Stott, 1st Baronet (20 February 1858 – 31 March 1937), usually known by his full name or as Sidney Stott, was an English architect, civil...
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painting in the National Portrait Gallery, formerly attributed as Sir Philip Sidney and now thought to depict his brother Robert, is adorned with the phrase...
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Sidney Poitier (/ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964...
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An Apology for Poetry (category Works by Philip Sidney)
Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after...
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is traditionally thought to be the inspiration for "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella sonnet sequence (published posthumously in 1591)...
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January 1555) and their brother-in-law, Henry Sidney, had befriended the incoming Spanish nobles around Philip of Spain, Mary's husband. In December 1554...
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Kingsford, Charles (1891). "Henry V (1387–1422)" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder...
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Paris became a temporary sanctuary for Protestant refugees, including Philip Sidney. Ursula, who was pregnant, escaped to England with their four-year-old...
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Philip Sidney Smith (28 July 1877 - 10 May 1949) was an American geologist and specialist in the geology of Alaska. On 28 July 1877, Smith was born in...
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Auerbach, mimesis has been theorised by thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Philip Sidney, Jean Baudrillard (via his concept of Simulacra and Simulation) Samuel...
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Mary Dudley, Lady Sidney (d. 1586) he was the father of Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and courtier under Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney (1561–1621), married...
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a town on January 30, 1792. The town was named for Sir Philip Sidney, an English author. Sidney is included in the Augusta, Maine micropolitan New England...
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improvements. Greville is best known today as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, and for his sober poetry, which presents dark and thoughtful views...
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Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie M. Philip Sidney) was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579. In...
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (category Works by Philip Sidney)
pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century. Having finished one version of his text, Sidney later significantly expanded...
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indicates the author is listed in multiple subsections. (For example, Philip Sidney appears in four.) Douglas Adams* — The Salmon of Doubt (an incomplete...
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Astrophel (Edmund Spenser) (category Philip Sidney)
Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney is a poem by the English poet Edmund Spenser. It is Spenser's tribute to the memory of Sir Philip Sidney, who had died in...
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The Sidney or Sidneian Psalms are a 16th-century paraphrase of the Psalms in English verse, the work of Philip and Mary Sidney, aristocratic siblings who...
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been in use in English-speaking countries since it was first used by Philip Sidney in Astrophel and Stella, his 1580s sonnet sequence. Use might also have...
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