Chapter V

_SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AND PASTORAL ROMANCE_ 217

Of shepherds.

I. Sidney's life--His travels and friendship with
Languet--His court life and love--His death--The end of
"Stella" 219

II. Sidney's works--Miscellaneous writings--The
"Apologie"--Sidney's appreciation of the poetic and
romantic novel.

The "Arcadia," why written--Sidney's various heroes:
shepherds, knights, princesses, &c.--Eclogues and
battles, fetes, masques and tournaments--Anglo-arcadian
architecture, gardens, dresses and furniture.

Sidney's object according to Fulke Greville, and
according to himself--His lovers--Youthful love, unlawful
love, foolish love, innocent love--Pamela's prayer--The
final imbroglio.

Sidney's style as a novel writer--His wit and
brightness--His eloquence--His bad taste--His fanciful
ornaments 228

III. Sidney's reputation in England--Continuators,
imitators, and admirers among dramatists, poets and
novelists--Shakespeare, Jonson, Day, Shirley,
Quarles--Lady Mary Wroth and her novel--Sidney's
reputation in the eighteenth century, Addison, Young,
Walpole, Cowper--Chap-books.

In France--He is twice translated, and gives rise to a
literary quarrel--Charles Sorel's judgment in the "Berger
extravagant," and Du Bartas' praise--Mareschal's drama
out of the "Arcadia"--Niceron and Florian 260