English Literature / Unit 6 ENL 0509 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
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The idea
Sir Philip Sidney, courtier and soldier, wrote Astrophil and Stella, a Petrarchan sonnet sequence of aloof Stella and suffering Astrophil, published in fifteen ninety-one. He also wrote the prose romance Arcadia. He died of a wound received at Zutphen in fifteen eighty-six.
In practice
Star-lover and star, in sonnets.
Where people slip
Astrophil means star-lover; Stella means star.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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