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.

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 contributed to her popular success.

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.

In the following essay, DuPriest provides an overview of Philips's career and life, probing the issue of her lack of posthumous popularity.

In the following essay, Loscocco links the decline in popularity of Philip's poetry with changes in gender viewpoints and neoclassicism.

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 place beside the long classical tradition of the literature of male love. " Extensive footnotes have been deleted in this reprinting, and can be found in the original essay cited above.

In the following excerpt, Hageman provides an overview of Philips's career and works.

In the following essay, Revard compares critiques by male contemporaries of Philips and Aphra Behn.

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 in the reception of her poetry and changes … in neoclassical literary aesthetics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."

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 Cornhill Magazine in 1881, he seeks to revive interest in Philips's work and provides an overview of her career.

In the following essay, Easton associates Philips's strategies of political disguise and sexual repression with her exploration of poetic language.

In the following essay, Buckingham relates the significance of Philips's contributions to English poetry.

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 of the conventions of courtly love poetry in her poems celebrating female friendship.

In the following essay, Stiebel argues that Philips and Aphra Behn employed conventions of the day to protect their respectability while professing their homosexuality.

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 preoccupation with Philips's sexual identity and instead examines the socially acceptable methods by which she protected her literary reputation.

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 publishing poetry.

In the following essay, Limbert describes a manuscript purported to be the earliest examples of Philips's poetry.