Katherine Philips
Who is Katherine Philips
Katherine or Catherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664), also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and for her editions of poetry after her death. She was highly regarded by many notable later writers, including John Dryden and John Keats, as being influential.
Early years
Born in London, Katherine Philips was daughter of John Fowler, a Presbyterian cloth merchant of Bucklersbury, near the river in the City of London, and of Katherine Oxenbridge, whose father worked in the medical profession. Philips, it seems, had a strong memory and was intellectually advanced, and was, according to a cousin of hers, able to read...
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Katherine Philips Poems
- In Memory Of F.p.
If I could ever write a lasting verse,
It should be laid, deare Sainte, upon thy herse.
But Sorrow is no muse, and doth confesse
That it least can what most it would expresse.
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- To My Antenor
My dear Antenor now give o're,
For my sake talk of Graves no more;
Death is not in our power to gain,
And is both wish'd and fear'd in vain
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- Arion To A Dolphin, On His Majesty's Passage Into England.
Whom does this stately Navy bring?
O! â??tis Great Britain's Glorious King,
Convey him then, ye Winds and Seas,
Swift as Desire and calm as Peace.
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- The World
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends,
That we should grieve for their too early ends:
He that surveys the world with serious eys,
And stripps Her from her grosse and weak disguise,
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- A Retir'd Friendship
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- Op109: happy tuesday! xo
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here let us sit, and bless our stars
who did such happy quiet give,
as that removed from noise of wars
in one another’s hearts we live.
why should we entertain a fear?
katherine philips, 1632 – 1664
- Queerwelsh: katherine philips was known as the "welsh sappho", who wrote poetry of romantic friendship to her 'society of friendship,' from her home in cardigan.
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- Helenreflects: unusual version of purcell’s o solitude, which is set to a poem by katherine philips, on a guitar with drop tuning
- Roaringgirle: ✨diy printing workshop!✨
first outing of 3d-printed composing stick was a success! students set type—passages by john milton & katherine philips—& printed on a provisional press.
composing stick dataset:
- Elizabe58649671: also elizabeth cary's *mariam* and katherine philips's *pompey*
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