Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

sair sidneySir Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586) was educated to embrace an unusual degree of political, relious,and cultural responsibility, yet it is clear from his comments in Defence ofSir Philip Sidney was an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day. After Shakespeare’s sonnets, Sidney’s