H. K. Woudhuysen
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198129660
- eISBN:
- 9780191671821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198129660.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Philip Sidney's birth on 30 November 1554 was recorded in two medieval volumes, a Psalter and a Book of Hours. His final illness and last moments were narrated in an anonymous account which survives ...
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Philip Sidney's birth on 30 November 1554 was recorded in two medieval volumes, a Psalter and a Book of Hours. His final illness and last moments were narrated in an anonymous account which survives in two slightly different manuscript versions. During his lifetime, the books and some of the letters he wrote circulated in handwritten copies. Yet with the possible exception of two sonnets, he never saw any of his writings in print. During much of his life, and even more after his death, Sidney was an important heroic and romantic figure. His patronage was widely sought and the evidence strongly suggests that he was generous with his rather short purse. A traveler, a diplomat, and eventually a military leader abroad, where he was received like a prince, he was also a courtier at home, playing his part in fashionable chivalric entertainments and in royal progresses around the kingdom.Less
Philip Sidney's birth on 30 November 1554 was recorded in two medieval volumes, a Psalter and a Book of Hours. His final illness and last moments were narrated in an anonymous account which survives in two slightly different manuscript versions. During his lifetime, the books and some of the letters he wrote circulated in handwritten copies. Yet with the possible exception of two sonnets, he never saw any of his writings in print. During much of his life, and even more after his death, Sidney was an important heroic and romantic figure. His patronage was widely sought and the evidence strongly suggests that he was generous with his rather short purse. A traveler, a diplomat, and eventually a military leader abroad, where he was received like a prince, he was also a courtier at home, playing his part in fashionable chivalric entertainments and in royal progresses around the kingdom.
Wim Verbei
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496805119
- eISBN:
- 9781496812544
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496805119.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter details events that prevented the publication of the final completed blues manuscript The Blues by J. Frank Boom and Will G. Gilbert. Over a period of nearly thirty years, there were ...
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This chapter details events that prevented the publication of the final completed blues manuscript The Blues by J. Frank Boom and Will G. Gilbert. Over a period of nearly thirty years, there were four occasions in which there had been serious talk of publishing the manuscript. The closest attempt at publication took place in 1970–71. The forthcoming release was even announced on the back flap of four monographs edited by blues expert Paul Oliver in his Blues Paperback series. Twenty years later Tony Russell, at the time editor of the publisher of the Blues Paperback series, declared the book by Boom a “famous desk-drawer manuscript”: it was as it happens completely irretrievable, and “unless by some near-miracle a copy of the MS should turn up again, this is a book we shall never read.”Less
This chapter details events that prevented the publication of the final completed blues manuscript The Blues by J. Frank Boom and Will G. Gilbert. Over a period of nearly thirty years, there were four occasions in which there had been serious talk of publishing the manuscript. The closest attempt at publication took place in 1970–71. The forthcoming release was even announced on the back flap of four monographs edited by blues expert Paul Oliver in his Blues Paperback series. Twenty years later Tony Russell, at the time editor of the publisher of the Blues Paperback series, declared the book by Boom a “famous desk-drawer manuscript”: it was as it happens completely irretrievable, and “unless by some near-miracle a copy of the MS should turn up again, this is a book we shall never read.”
