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From an engraving on wood Beginning of the 16th Century
Sir Philip Sidney
This is no insult to Sir Philip Sidney, but only to the rather exorbitant demands of the form he had chosen. His own sonnets vindicate him as a poet, and some of them, even Hazlitt owned, who did not like him, 'are sweet even to a sense of faintness, luscious as the woodbine, and graceful and luxurious like it.'
Nijmegen, Gelderland (dated 1544)
Nijmegen, Gelderland (dated 1544)
Groningen (1509)
Groningen (1509)