♦ Sir Philip Sedney:- He is from the Elizabethan period.- তিনি একাধারে Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet.- After Shakespeare’s sonnets, Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella is considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle.- His Astrophel and Stella considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle.- Sidney helped to popularize Italian poetic forms such as the sonnet and the villanelle, making them some of the most popular and enduring forms in English poetry.• Famous works:- Arcadia, - Astrophel and Stella,- The Defence of Poesy/ An Apology for Poetry.Source: Britannica.