She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Literary responses
Katherine Philips
An anonymous Irishwoman calling herself Philo-Philippa sent KP
her To the Excellent Orinda, a remarkable poem in her praise. The text was later included in the authorized, posthumous edition of Philips's Poems and its re-issues.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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Literary responses
Katherine Philips
Pompey's many admirers included Edmund Waller
, who had himself been working on a translation of the same play, and the highly talented Philo-Philippa.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
17-18
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
Soon after KP
's death Sir William Temple
published an elegy on her, made at the Desire of My Lady Temple
qtd. in
Roberts, William, scholar. “Sir William Temple on Orinda: Neglected Publications”. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol.
57
, 1963, pp. 328-36.
332-3
—his wife, the former Dorothy Osborne
. The progress of her reputation was...
Author summary
Ephelia
The Restoration user of the name Ephelia
was a remarkably assured, forceful, and accomplished poet (as well as a playwright), although she left, outside her single printed collection (1679), only four poems extant: politicalbroadsheets and...