The principal one is the _Arcadia_.

The name, which was adopted from Sannazzaro, would indicate a pastoral--and this was eminently the age of English pastoral--but it is in reality not such.

It presents indeed sylvan scenes, but they are in the life of a knight.

It is written in prose, interspersed with short poems, and was inspired by and dedicated to his literary sister Mary, the Countess of Pembroke.

It was called indeed the _Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia_.