Below are some articles, available on JSTOR, that discuss Sidney’s sonnet sequence. We will be reading and discussing some as a class. Feel free to read them all (and more).
1.
Title: The Politics of Astrophil and Stella
Author(s): Ann Rosalind Jones; Peter Stallybrass
Source: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 24, No. 1, The English Renaissance (Winter, 1984), pp. 53-68
Publisher(s): Rice University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450349

2.
Title: The Emergence of Stella in Astrophil and Stella
Author(s): Nona Fienberg
Source: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 25, No. 1, The English Renaissance (Winter, 1985), pp. 5-19
Publisher(s): Rice University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450626

3.
Title: Structure and Syntax in Astrophil and Stella
Author(s): Colin Williamson
Source: The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 31, No. 123 (Aug., 1980), pp. 271-284
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/513982

4.
Title: Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich
Author(s): Jean Robertson
Source: The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 59 (Aug., 1964), pp. 296-297
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/512516

5.
Title: Sidney’s Purposeful Humor: Astrophil and Stella 59 and 83
Author(s): Daniel Traister
Source: ELH, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter, 1982), pp. 751-764
Publisher(s): The Johns Hopkins University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2872896

6.
Title: Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella: “See What It Is to Love” Sensually!
Author(s): James J. Scanlon
Source: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 16, No. 1, The English Renaissance (Winter, 1976), pp. 65-74
Publisher(s): Rice University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/449855

7.
Title: Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella as a Sonnet Sequence
Author(s): A. C. Hamilton
Source: ELH, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), pp. 59-87
Publisher(s): The Johns Hopkins University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2872143

8.
Title: Sidney and Astrophil
Author(s): Alan Sinfield
Source: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 20, No. 1, The English Renaissance (Winter, 1980), pp. 25-41
Publisher(s): Rice University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450099

9.
Title: Lost Potential in Grammar and Nature: Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella
Author(s): Margreta De Grazia
Source: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 21, No. 1, The English Renaissance (Winter, 1981), pp. 21-35
Publisher(s): Rice University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450110

10.
Title: Did Sidney Revise “Astrophil and Stella?”
Author(s): Michael Baird Saenger
Source: Studies in Philology, Vol. 96, No. 4 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 417-438
Publisher(s): University of North Carolina Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4174652

11.
Title: “To Portrait That Which in This World Is Best”: Stella in Perspective
Author(s): Daniel Traister
Source: Studies in Philology, Vol. 81, No. 4 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 419-437
Publisher(s): University of North Carolina Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4174186