# Sir Philip Sidney — Essays character guide

> Sir Philip Sidney in Essays by Henry David Thoreau.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Philip, Sidney

**First appearance:** 0022-sir-walter-raleigh

## Who they are

Elizabethan poet and courtier; example of chivalric virtue.

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