# Sir Philip Sidney — The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. character guide

> Sir Philip Sidney in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0012-a-royal-poet

## Who they are

An Elizabethan poet and courtier referenced in the text.

## In the story

### [The Art of Book-Making](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sketchbook_of_geoffrey_crayon_gent_se/chapters/the-art-of-book-making)

Mentioned in the dream as an author whose hat is stolen by a modern writer.

### [The Mutability of Literature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sketchbook_of_geoffrey_crayon_gent_se/chapters/the-mutability-of-literature)

Mentioned as an author whose 'Arcadia' was once predicted to be immortal but is now scarcely read.

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