Gavin Alexander is a University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, a Fellow of Christ's College,where he teaches English, and the Fellow Librarian of the College Library. He works on literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other research interests include poetry and music, rhetoric, the history of versification, the history of literary criticism, and textual studies. In 2008 he was awarded a Pilkington Prize by the University of Cambridge for excellence in teaching, and he organised the John Milton 400th Anniversary Celebrations.

Readers will find Writing after Sidney extremely useful because of its interconnections among so many writers in the period; they will also find some brilliant literary analysis.

• Introduction ; 1. Philip Sidney: Dialogue and Incompletion ; 2. Elegies and Legacies ; 3. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: The Last Word ; 4. Families and Friends ; 5. Robert Sidney: Finding and Making ; 6. Lyric After Sidney ; 7. Fulke Greville: Life After Sidney ; 8. Versions of Arcadia ; 9. Mary Wroth: The Constant Art ; Postscript ; Bibliography

Gavin Alexander is a University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, a Fellow of Christ's College,where he teaches English, and the Fellow Librarian of the College Library. He works on literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other research interests include poetry and music, rhetoric, the history of versification, the history of literary criticism, and textual studies. In 2008 he was awarded a Pilkington Prize by the University of Cambridge for excellence in teaching, and he organised the John Milton 400th Anniversary Celebrations.

Readers will find Writing after Sidney extremely useful because of its interconnections among so many writers in the period; they will also find some brilliant literary analysis.

• Introduction ; 1. Philip Sidney: Dialogue and Incompletion ; 2. Elegies and Legacies ; 3. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: The Last Word ; 4. Families and Friends ; 5. Robert Sidney: Finding and Making ; 6. Lyric After Sidney ; 7. Fulke Greville: Life After Sidney ; 8. Versions of Arcadia ; 9. Mary Wroth: The Constant Art ; Postscript ; Bibliography

Gavin Alexander is a University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, a Fellow of Christ's College,where he teaches English, and the Fellow Librarian of the College Library. He works on literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other research interests include poetry and music, rhetoric, the history of versification, the history of literary criticism, and textual studies. In 2008 he was awarded a Pilkington Prize by the University of Cambridge for excellence in teaching, and he organised the John Milton 400th Anniversary Celebrations.

Readers will find Writing after Sidney extremely useful because of its interconnections among so many writers in the period; they will also find some brilliant literary analysis.

• Introduction ; 1. Philip Sidney: Dialogue and Incompletion ; 2. Elegies and Legacies ; 3. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: The Last Word ; 4. Families and Friends ; 5. Robert Sidney: Finding and Making ; 6. Lyric After Sidney ; 7. Fulke Greville: Life After Sidney ; 8. Versions of Arcadia ; 9. Mary Wroth: The Constant Art ; Postscript ; Bibliography