Friend to Sir Philip Sidney
Blair Worden, 3 July 1986
The Prose Works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
edited by John Gouws.
Oxford, 279 pp., £40, March 1986,0 19 812746 4 Show More
edited by John Gouws.
Oxford, 279 pp., £40, March 1986,
“... Walsingham, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth, and preserved in the public imagination by Thomas Lant’s pictorial roll, was the grandest accorded to an English subject before Nelson: a determined show of strength by the forward Protestant party to which Sidney had belonged and in whose cause he became a martyr. Poets wrote elegies which answered to ... ”