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PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1708) , English poet and man of letters, son of Dr Stephen Philips, archdeacon of Shropshire, was born at his father's vicarage at Bampton, Oxfordshire, on the 3oth of December 1676. He was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a careful reader of Virgil and of Milton. In 1701 his poem, The Splendid Shilling, was published without his consent, and a second unauthorized version in 1705 induced him to print
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burlesque poem in the British language," recites in Miltonic blank verse the miseries consequent on the want of that piece of money. Its success introduced Philips to the notice of Robert Harley and Henry
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Homer
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See The Whole Works of . . . John Philips . To which is prefixed his life, by Mr [G.j Sewell (3rd ed., 172o); Johnson, Lives of the Poets; and Biographia Britannica. End of Article: PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1708) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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