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Katherine or Catherine Philips (née Fowler; 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.
Katherine Philips (1631/32–1664), Anglo-Welsh royalist poet; Katherine Phillips, American educator; Katherine W. Phillips (1972–2020), American business theorist; Katherine Pierpoint (born 1961), English poet; Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie (1895–1985), pioneer in modern English studio pottery; Katherine Plouffe (born 1992), Canadian ...
This piece was written by Katherine Philips reportedly in response to "a Libelous Rhyme made by V.P." The "V.P." in question is Vavasor Powell (1617–70), a Noncomformist preacher, member of the Fifth Monarchists, and a writer. The "rhyme" alluded to by Philips is his poem "Of The Late K. Charles of Blessed Memory". [2]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler (died 1664), London-born Anglo-Welsh poet August 13 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (died 1713), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin
A prime example of such curiosity-shop publications is The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse (1774), [ebook 18] which includes nonsense rhymes, epitaphs, inscriptions, poems made out of newspaper cuttings, as well as wills written in verse.
January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler, Anglo-Welsh poet, translator and woman of letters (died 1664) January 29 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classicist (died 1730) March 4 (baptised) – Lancelot Addison, English author and father of Joseph Addison (died 1703) June 10 – Esprit Fléchier, French historian and bishop (died 1710)
The poets represented in Poems by Eminent Ladies are diverse in terms of literary reputation and degree of critical and commercial success, literary school or style, and social, economic, and cultural background.
After Wordsworth began the "Lucy poems", Coleridge wrote, "Some months ago Wordsworth transmitted to me a most sublime Epitaph / whether it had any reality, I cannot say. —Most probably, in some gloomier moment he had fancied the moment in which his Sister might die."