Works


The following are all available in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, ed. Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon, and Michael Brennan, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998). Electronic editions are also listed below. For other print editions, see the bibliography link.

Antonius (first published with A Discourse in 1592, separately in 1595), translated from Garnier.

The Tragedie of Antonie. Doone into English by the Countesse of Pembroke. London: printed 

    by P. Short for William Ponsonby, 1595.

Antonius. 1595 ed. (Tragedie of Antonie). Transc. Richard Bear.

A Discourse of Life and Death (first published 1592), translated from de Mornay.

A Discourse of Life and Death, Written in French by Philip Mornay; Antonius: A Tragoedie

    Written Also in French by Robert Garnier. Both done in English by the Countesse of

    Pembroke. London: printed by J. Windet for William Ponsonby, 1592.

"The Dolefull Lay" (first published in Astrophel, 1595), authorship disputed.

Printed in Edmund Spenser, Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegy Upon the Death of the Most Noble

    and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney. London: printed by T. Creede for William Ponsonby,

    1595.

"A Dialogue betweene two shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in praise of Astrea" (first published in Poetical

            Rapsody, 1602).

            Printed in A Poetical Rhapsody Containing, Diverse Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigals,

                and other Poesies, both in Rhyme, and Measured Verse
, ed. Francis Davison. London:

                printed by V. Simmes for J. Baily, 1602. Reprinted 1608, 1611, 1621.

The Psalmes of David (1590s).

"Even now that Care" and "To the Angell spirit of the most excellent Sir Phillip Sidney" (1590s).

        "To the Angel Spirit," an early version by the countess found with Samuel Daniel's papers and

            erroneously included in The Whole Works of Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetry . London:

            printed by N. Okes for Simon Waterson, 1623.

The Triumph of Death (1590s, transcribed 1600), translated from Petrarch.

The Triumph of Death. Ed. Gavin Alexander. Sidneiana.. Ceres.. 20 Sept. 1999.

Correspondence.