John Philips

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John Philips (December 30, 1676 – February 15, 1709). Born in Brampton, Oxfordshire, he was a poet, son of an archdeacon of Salop, and educated at Oxford.

His 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 tuberculosis.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.