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Title: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia : The Old Arcadia (Oxford World's Classics) by Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones ISBN: 0-19-283956-X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A monument of dullness?
Comment: T.S. Eliot labelled Sidney's Arcadia as a "monument of dullness," and about 100 pages into the book, I felt inclined to agree with his assessment. Sidney was a poet first and foremost, and even he admitted to his sister, the Countess of Pembroke, that this particular work was but "a trifle."
Yet, surprisingly, I found myself getting captivated by the plot of two princes disguised as shepherds to win the girls of their dreams (in the process, of course, they also win girls -- and guys -- of their nightmares). The somewhat stilted (even by Renaissance standards) language makes it difficult to plod through at times, but the plot is interesting and keeps your attention -- and that's ultimately what counts.
Re: this edition, it is one of the few good editions of the original "Old" Arcadia around. Sidney revised the work during his lifetime and his friend and biographer, Fulke Greville, later published a bizarre composite of the old and revised versions that for centuries stood as the definitive "Arcadia". K. Duncan-Jones provides a clean text with useful scholarly apparatus. One caveat: in my edition, pp. 297-306 were *missing*, mistakenly replaced by a double-printed pp. 307-316. This is an annoyance for someone who is reading the book as a scholar, which I believe represents the majority readership of the book, as I can't imagine casual readers picking it up for bedstand reading!
All in all, a fun work and better than the first act leads one to believe!
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Title: Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works by Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones ISBN: 0192840800 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Edmund Spenser's Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) by Edmund Spenser, Hugh Maclean, Anne Lake Prescott, Edmund Spencer, Hugh Spenser ISBN: 0393962997 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.25 |
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Title: Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics) by Ludovico Ariosto, Guido Waldman ISBN: 0192836773 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser, Thomas P. Roche, C. P. O'Connell ISBN: 0140422072 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe, J. B. Steane, Thomas Nash ISBN: 0140430679 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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