Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Mary Sidney’s life and works
* Concise introduction to her life and poetry
* Includes Mary Sidney’s complete works — first time in digital publishing
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Rare poems digitised here for the first time, including ‘Our Saviour’s Passion’
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* The complete ‘Book of Psalms’, including Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘Psalms’
* Mary Sidney’s two major translations
* Features a bonus biography — discover the poet’s incredible life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Life and Poetry of Mary Sidney
Brief Introduction: Mary Sidney
A Dialogue between Two Shepherds, Thenot and Piers (1595)
The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda (1595)
Even Now That Care (1599)
To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney (1599)
To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney — Variant Text (1599)
Book of Psalms (1599)
Triumph of Death (1600) by Petrarch
Our Saviour’s Passion (1865)
The Letter
Countess of Pembroke’s Letter to Queen Elizabeth (1601)
The Translations
A Discourse of Life and Death (1592) by Philippe de Mornay
Antonius (1592) by Robert Garnier
The Biography
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1900) by Sidney Lee
