GALLERY OF CLOUDS

Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidneys sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the fine st works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for King Lear/ Virginia Woolf saw it as some luminous globe wherein all the seeds of English fiction lie latent. In Gallery of Clouds, the Renaissance scholar Rachel Eis endrath has written an extraordinary homage to Arcadia in the form of a book-length essay divided into passing clouds: The clouds i n my Arcadia, ...[Read more]