Early in Beyond‘s existence, we recorded and released (almost) daily the sonnets and songs from Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney. As a swift daily project, their quality can vary – some are very good, some are so so, and many are very similar to the one before or after it.
It is a complete story, the love of a man for a lady, one which is doomed, and his roller coaster emotions.  It has a truth to it, in that it is clearly true to the authors feelings. And the author’s jealousy is corrosive and often unpleasant. It is the product of a masculine culture, his idea of love being positively adolescent.
In the meantime, here is the complete sequence for you to judge for yourself. All poems are performed by Robert Crighton