Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, Vol. 1 of 3: Edited With Memorial Introduction and Notes by Alexander B. Grosart
Perhaps it will generally be admitted that it is one of the most inexplicable of the many 'Curiosities' and anomalies of our Literature, that ours should be, to all intents and purposes, the first collective edition, as it is absolutely the first critical text, of the Poems of Sir Philip Sidney. Following the Trade edition of the Works (3 vols. 12mo, 1739), Gray, in his 'Miscellaneous Works' of Sidney (Oxford, 1829: Boston, 1860, 8vo), satisfied himself with 'Astrophel and Stella, ' and 'Certaine Sonnets' and other Poems, which he placed under the heading 'Miscellaneous Poems, ' - utterly ignoring the much more numerous Poems contained in the 'Arcadia' and 'Psalmes.' He added from Dr. Bliss's edition of the Athenae Oxon. and Bibliog. Miscellanies, and elsewhere, slightly. There is no other available edition. So that it must surely be regarded as a desideratum worth supplying, to reproduce, as we herein do, the complete Poems of Sidney.
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