The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

The first English examples of fiction in prose were stories from the great chivalric cycles of Arthur, of Charlemagne, and of Troy and Alexander.

英语散文中最早的小说例子，是关于亚瑟、查理曼、特洛伊和亚历山大的伟大骑士传奇故事。

Sidney the critic and interpreter of letters looked back, not forward.

作为批评家与文学诠释者的锡德尼，是向后看，而不是向前看。