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    inspired Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella (sometimes spelt Astrophil and Stella). Likely composed in the 1580s, it is the first of the...
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  • Manganaro, Elise Salem (December 2, 1989). "Songs and Sonnets in Astrophil and Stella: A Reading of Sidney's Poetics". Explorations in Renaissance Culture...
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    MD: Johns Hopkins University Press: 248. Reed, Jon B. (Autumn 1990). "Astrophil and Estella: A Defense of Poesy". SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900...
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  • Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an. There are 108 love sonnets in Astrophil and Stella, the first English sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney. There are...
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    2008. Cañadas, Ivan. "Questioning Men's Love in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus". Medieval and Early...
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    contributed a preface to an unlicensed edition of Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, but the edition was called in, and the authorised second edition...
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    response to the erotic poems of the age, such as Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. Chapman's life was troubled by...
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