A Biography of Edmund Spenser

It is said that his friend Harvey introduced him to that famous accomplished gentleman–that mirror of true knighthood–Sir Philip Sidney, and it would seem that Penshurst became for some time his home. There has already been quoted a line describing Spenser as ‘the southern shepheardes boye.’ This southern shepherd is probably Sidney. Sidney, it would seem, introduced him to his father and to his uncle, the Earl of Leicester.