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This sounds a lot like a term paper question to us. Of course, we could give you the answer, but you'd probably have a tough time formatting "Ask Yahoo!" into your bibliography. You're better off looking for a more direct source of information. Try putting "Philip Sidney" into the search box of your favorite Internet portal and see if you can come up with some good starting points. Here are some of the resources that struck us: To peruse a few of the sonnets in the "Astrophel and Stella" series, check the University of Toronto's Poetry Archive. Or, if you're up to it, you can read the series in its original form. Once you're familiar with
your source material, perhaps you should turn to some general information on the subject. Luckily the writing prompt that you have before you provides a suitably specific topic in the form of "courtly love." A quick search revealed a couple of possibilities, including Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly Love and Chivalry and Courtly Love. By combining a close reading of the source and supplementary material with some preliminary writing, you may find that you can come up with a great answer to the question. Of course, once you've revised and proofread your work, don't just turn it in; share it with the world. A good place to start would
be Sidney-L, an email discussion list that covers the work and life of Sir Philip Sidney. Who knows, maybe the next student who has to write about "Astrophel and Stella" will gain some insights from your work.
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