"According to [James] Johnstoun, his supplement [to Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] grew out of his affection for Sidney's romance. Having read the Arcadia over and over, he became inspired by the two pairs of lovers ..."
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Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: James Johnstoun
"According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediately saw through his deception: she 'was so well versed in his author, as tacitely she traced him to the bottom of a leaf.'"
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Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon
"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Gecko and in hearing Moll Neville read the Arcadia.'"
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Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Moll Neville
'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book
[Marginalia]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Read the arcadia and Amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read the Arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'A good phrase of Sir P Sidneys for looking foolish. "he lookd like an Ape that had newly taken a purgation".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
(1)'What is nicer than to get a book — doubtful both about reading matter and edition, and
then to find both are topping?.... I have just had this pleasure in Sidney's "Arcadia". Oh Arthur,
you simply must get it.... I don't know how to explain its particular charm, because it is not at
all like anything I ever read before: and yet in places like all of them.... The only real fault is
that all the people talk too much and with a tendency to rhetoric, and the author insists on
making bad puns from time to time.' (2) 'I am at present enjoying a new literary find in the
shape of Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia", which I got at a venture and found better than I
expected.' (3) 'The "Arcadia" continues beautiful: in fact it gets better and better. There has
been one part that Charlotte Bronte could not have bettered: where Philoclea ... goes out by
moonlight to an old grove ... that is equal to if not better than the scene where Jane Eyre
wakes up on the moor...' (4) 'That feast the "Arcadia" is nearly ended: in some ways the last
book is the best ... and here the story is so like the part of Ivanhoe where they are all in
Front-de-Boeuf's castle, that I think Scott must have borrowed it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
