Chapter 5

_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, fêtes, 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