 I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that...  The Retrospective Review - Page 551824Full view - About this book
 | Philip Sidney - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 286 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph' (117/9-12). At the end of the Apology, as at the beginning, Sidney is harping on the problem of lineage:... | |
 | Philip Sidney - English poetry - 2002 - 182 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. 148 r The lad Philisides Lay by a river's side, In flow'ry field a gladder eye to please:* His pipe... | |
 | Bart Van Es - History - 2002 - 260 pages
...sepulchres, is usurped as Sidney signs off by directing a light-hearted curse at the enemy of poetry that 'when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph' (p. 250). Light-hearted or not, Sidney's critique exposes significant cracks in the fagade of 'providential... | |
 | Katharine Goodland - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 276 pages
...issues: he utters a curse "upon all those who refuse to hear or see the beauties of poetry" ... that "when you die your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph" (75). Sidney's defense assumes a moderate position in the debates over theater and funeral custom,... | |
 | Jeannine Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 324 pages
...must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor for lacking skill of a sonnet, and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph."9 Sidney's malediction is especially important, coming as it does after he dismisses the significance... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1915 - 242 pages
...much curse I must send you in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you live, you 10 live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a Sonnet: and...memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph. FINIS. NOTES. PAGE 1. 1. Edward Wotton, the elder brother of Sir Henry Wotton : son 1 of Thomas Wotton... | |
 | S. L. Edwards - English prose literature - 1953 - 220 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a Sonnet, and,...memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph. ? 1554-1606 Euphues and his England ('First edition 1580) IT happened that these English gentlemen... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 522 pages
...must send you in the behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you die,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." As no " Apologie for Poetrie " has appeared among us, we hope that Sir Philip Sidney's " Defence "... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney, Albert Feuillerat - 386 pages
...all Poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a Sonet, and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaphe. FINIS. A DISCOURSE ON IRISH AFFAIRS. (A fragment.) T) UT the fowrthe pointe is it whiche... | |
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