Proportional Form in the Sonnet of Sidney Circle: Loving in Truth.(Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2000| | Copyright

Proportional Form in the Sonnets of the Sidney Circle: Loving in Truth. By TOM W. N. PARKER. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. vii + 259 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].

The argument of Tom Parker's book is straightforward and easy to summarize. He contends that Sir Philip Sidney was keenly interested in neo-Platonic philosophy, espoused theories of numerical proportion based principally on musical analogies, and developed these through his close friendship with Giordano Bruno. Sidney's sequence is based around the figure 108 (the number of sonnets), ...

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