EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION LIFE OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY TESTIMONIES CONCERNING THE AUTHOR SIDNEY’S DEDICATION ARCADIA BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV BOOK V BOOK VI (by R. B.) NOTES In a broad survey of the early history of English prose fiction three periods mark themselves out with great distinctness. The later centuries of the middle ages were the age of romance, when both poet and proseman worked upon the same mass of legendary material, expanding and embellishing the current stories in precisely the same spirit, the difference between prose romance and metrical romance being simply one of mechanical form. When in the Elizabethan age the literature of tradition gave way to the literature of inv…
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