John Philips

John Philips

(1676-1709) Poet, son of an archdeacon of Salop, and educated at Oxford. is Splendid Shilling, a burlesque in Miltonic blank verse, still lives, and Cyder, his chief work, an imitation of Virgil's Georgics, has some fine descriptive passages. Philips was also employed by Harley to write verses on Blenheim as a counterblast to Addison's Campaign. He died at 33 of consumption.

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