The Sidney Family

Biographies and literary (prose and/or poetry) works of Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Hoby, Roger Ascham, John Foxe, Edward de Vere, Elizabeth I, and George Gascoigne.

A developing multimedia archive of projects and materials relating to the Sidney family.

All the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise. Follow the instructions below to find your way around. Sonnets by other Elizabethan poets are also included, Spenser, Sidney, Drayton and a few other minor authors. The poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt are also given, with both old and modern spelling versions, and with brief notes provided.