Astrophil and Stella (Version 2)
Sir Philip Sidney
119 chapters · 3 h 10 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, Kerry Adams, KevinS, Algy Pug, nighthawks, jenno and others
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Astrophil and Stella is a sequence of sonnets and songs written by Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means "star-lover") for his beloved Stella (whose name means "star"). The first of the famous English sonnet sequences, Astrophel and Stella influenced later writers like Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. In it, Sidney partially nativised the key features of his Italian model, Petrarch, which served to free the English sonnet from the strict rhyming requirements of the Italian form. - Summary by Alan Mapstone
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1 Sonnet 1 2 min 2 Sonnet 2 1 min 3 Sonnet 3 1 min 4 Sonnet 4 1 min 5 Sonnet 5 1 min 6 Sonnet 6 2 min 7 Sonnet 7 1 min 8 Sonnet 8 2 min 9 Sonnet 9 1 min 10 Sonnet 10 2 min 11 Sonnet 11 1 min 12 Sonnet 12 1 min 13 Sonnet 13 1 min 14 Sonnet 14 1 min 15 Sonnet 15 1 min 16 Sonnet 16 1 min 17 Sonnet 17 1 min 18 Sonnet 18 1 min 19 Sonnet 19 1 min 20 Sonnet 20 1 min 21 Sonnet 21 2 min 22 Sonnet 22 1 min 23 Sonnet 23 2 min 24 Sonnet 24 1 min 25 Sonnet 25 1 min 26 Sonnet 26 2 min 27 Sonnet 27 2 min 28 Sonnet 28 1 min 29 Sonnet 29 2 min 30 Sonnet 30 1 min 31 Sonnet 31 2 min 32 Sonnet 32 1 min 33 Sonnet 33 1 min 34 Sonnet 34 1 min 35 Sonnet 35 1 min 36 Sonnet 36 2 min 37 Sonnet 37 2 min 38 Sonnet 38 2 min 39 Sonnet 39 1 min 40 Sonnet 40 2 min 41 Sonnet 41 1 min 42 Sonnet 42 1 min 43 Sonnet 43 1 min 44 Sonnet 44 1 min 45 Sonnet 45 1 min 46 Sonnet 46 1 min 47 Sonnet 47 1 min 48 Sonnet 48 1 min 49 Sonnet 49 1 min 50 Sonnet 50 1 min 51 Sonnet 51 1 min 52 Sonnet 52 1 min 53 Sonnet 53 2 min 54 Sonnet 54 1 min 55 Sonnet 55 1 min 56 Sonnet 56 1 min 57 Sonnet 57 2 min 58 Sonnet 58 1 min 59 Sonnet 59 1 min 60 Sonnet 60 1 min 61 Sonnet 61 1 min 62 Sonnet 62 1 min 63 Sonnet 63 1 min 64 First Song 3 min 65 Sonnet 64 1 min 66 Sonnet 65 1 min 67 Sonnet 66 1 min 68 Sonnet 67 1 min 69 Sonnet 68 1 min 70 Sonnet 69 1 min 71 Sonnet 70 1 min 72 Sonnet 71 1 min 73 Sonnet 72 1 min 74 Second Song 2 min 75 Sonnet 73 1 min 76 Sonnet 74 1 min 77 Sonnet 75 2 min 78 Sonnet 76 2 min 79 Sonnet 77 2 min 80 Sonnet 78 1 min 81 Sonnet 79 2 min 82 Sonnet 80 2 min 83 Sonnet 81 2 min 84 Sonnet 82 1 min 85 Sonnet 83 1 min 86 Third Song 2 min 87 Sonnet 84 1 min 88 Sonnet 85 2 min 89 Fourth Song 4 min 90 Sonnet 86 1 min 91 Fifth Song 9 min 92 Sixth Song 3 min 93 Seventh Song 2 min 94 Eighth Song 5 min 95 Ninth Song 3 min 96 Sonnet 87 2 min 97 Sonnet 88 2 min 98 Sonnet 89 2 min 99 Sonnet 90 2 min 100 Sonnet 91 2 min 101 Sonnet 92 2 min 102 Tenth Song 3 min 103 Sonnet 93 1 min 104 Sonnet 94 1 min 105 Sonnet 95 1 min 106 Sonnet 96 1 min 107 Sonnet 97 1 min 108 Sonnet 98 1 min 109 Sonnet 99 1 min 110 Sonnet 100 1 min 111 Sonnet 101 1 min 112 Sonnet 102 2 min 113 Sonnet 103 1 min 114 Sonnet 104 2 min 115 Eleventh Song 3 min 116 Sonnet 105 1 min 117 Sonnet 106 1 min 118 Sonnet 107 1 min 119 Sonnet 108 2 min
