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| Noun | 1. An alternative spelling for "Astrofel": Alt. of Astrofell.[Websters]. | |
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Date "Astrophel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
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| Literature | Astrophel Sir Philip Sidney. "Phil. Sid." being a contraction of Philos Sidus, and the Latin sidus being changed to the Greek astron, we get astron-philos (star-lover). The "star" that he loved was Penelope Devereux, whom he called Stella (star), and to whom he was betrothed. Edmund Spenser wrote a pastoral called Astrophel, to the memory of his friend and patron, who fell at the battle of Zutphen. (1554--1586.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Astrophel and Stella | Likely composed in the 1580s by Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella is the first of the famous English sonnet sequences. They were well-circulated in manuscript before the first (apparently pirated) edition was printed in 1591; only in 1598 did an authorized edition reach the press. The sequence was a watershed in English Renaissance poetry. In it, Sidney partially nativized the key features of his Italian model, Petrarch: variation of emotion from poem to poem, with the attendant sense of an ongoing, but partly obscure, narrative; the philosophical trappings; the musings on the act of poetic creation itself. His experiments with rhyme scheme were no less notable; they served to free the English sonnet from the strict rhyming requirements of the Italian form. (references) | ||
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