The book includes the sonnet cycle "Astrophile and Stella" (108 sonnets and 11 songs in total) by Philip Sidney (1554-1586). Only a few (about twenty) of them were translated earlier for collections and anthologies. The prose treatise "Protection of Poetry" was translated by L.I. Volodarskaya for the first time. The book is supplemented by the sonnet cycle "Some Sonnets" (32 poems), which is also translated for the first time.