Download or read book The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia written by Philip Sidney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century. Having finished one version of his text, Sidney later significantly expanded and revised his work. Scholars today often refer to these two major versions as the Old Arcadia and the New Arcadia. The Arcadia is Sidney's most ambitious literary work by far, and as significant in its own way as his sonnets.