Surname: Sidney Forename(s): Philip b. 30 November 1554. d. 17 October 1586. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Elizabethan poet and courtier. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, but did not take
a degree. Knighted in 1583. Author of Astrophel and Stella (1591), The Defence of Poesy (1595), and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590). Biographical information: ODNB. (SCM)