My Dagger into Yow
Ian Donaldson: Sidney’s Letters, 25 April 2013
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
edited by Roger Kuin.
Oxford, 1381 pp., £250, July 2012,978 0 19 955822 3 Show More
edited by Roger Kuin.
Oxford, 1381 pp., £250, July 2012,
“... rhetorical currency required for any respectable courtship or commercial transaction. As a boy, Philip Sidney – whose works Richardson was later to publish, and to study with attention – was carefully trained in the art of letter writing. His bedroom, according to his early biographer Thomas Moffet, ‘overflowed with elegant epistles’ which he had ... ”