Best known today for her poems on female friendship, Katherine Philips wrote some 125 poems on a variety of subjects; she translated plays by Pierre Corneille and five shorter Italian and French piece...
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In the following essay, Buckingham relates the significance of Philips's contributions to English poetry.
Every age has its little lights that burn for a time with more or less brilliancy an...
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In the following essay, Brashear documents how Philips's persona as a reluctantly published gentle-lady was contrived to ensure her own success but prohibited future British women from publishi...
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In the following essay, Limbert describes a manuscript purported to be the earliest examples of Philips's poetry.
In his brief biography of the Royalist poet Katherine Philips (1632-1664), k...
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In the following essay, Andreadis traces Philips's conscious use of male Platonic friendships as a model for her homoerotic poetry about friendships between women.
Katherine Philips, known a...
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In the following essay, DuPriest provides an overview of Philips's career and life, probing the issue of her lack of posthumous popularity.
With the emergence of feminist criticism has come ...
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In the following essay, Loscocco links the decline in popularity of Philip's poetry with changes in gender viewpoints and neoclassicism.
When Katherine Philips's posthumous Poems appe...
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In the following essay, Stiebel argues that Philips and Aphra Behn employed conventions of the day to protect their respectability while professing their homosexuality.
Although in recent discourse...
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In the following essay, Swaim compares Philip's poetry with verse by John Milton and John Donne to analyze her unique contribution to English literature.
Among the most prominent names that ...
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In the following essay, Revard compares critiques by male contemporaries of Philips and Aphra Behn.
In 1683, Triumphs of Female Wit appeared on the London scene, a slender volume that contained thr...
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A distinguished English literary historian, critic, and biographer, Gosse wrote extensively on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature. In the following excerpt, originally published in...
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In the following excerpt, Hageman provides an overview of Philips's career and works.
Because her poem "On the First of January 1657" includes the statement that God has ...
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In the following excerpt, Hobby analyzes Philips's public persona as a function of the constraints placed upon women writers in the seventeenth century and examines Philips's reworking o...
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In the following essay, Andreadis argues that the poems that constitute "Philips's real contribution to English letters" reveal expressions of homoerotic love "and have a p...
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In the following essay, Easton associates Philips's strategies of political disguise and sexual repression with her exploration of poetic language.
In his preface to the first authorized edi...
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In the following essay, Limbert discusses Philips's efforts to assert control over aspects of her personal and public life. Limbert questions the validity and relevance of critical preoccupatio...
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In the following excerpt, Mulvihill traces the development of Philips's career in the context of the "Orinda" myth and the "old boys' network" that contribute...
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In the following excerpt, Loscocco discusses "the decline in Philips's reputation in the eighteenth century," which she explains by "charting the interplay between changes ...
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Katherine Philips
Critical Essay by Elinor M. Buckingham
