ABSTRACT
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. For a notice of his association with Spenser, see Aubrey (No. 172). Attempts to make the explicit poetics of The Defence square with the implicit poetics of the Faerie Queene are not particularly well augured by Sidney's only reference to Spenser here. See Shepherd's note in the edition cited below, p. 218. For the dating c. 1583, see the same edition, pp. 2-4.
