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See also:STEPHEN See also:PHILLIPS (1868– )
, See also:British poet and dramatist, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:July 1868 at Somertown near See also:Oxford, the son of the Rev
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See also:Stephen See also:Phillips, See also:precentor of See also:Peterborough See also:Cathedral
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He was educated at See also:Stratford and Peterborough See also:Grammar See also:Schools, and entered See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Cambridge; but during his first See also:term at Cambridge, when F
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See also:Benson's dramatic See also:company visited the See also:town, he joined it, and for six years played various small parts
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In 1890 a slender See also:volume of See also:verse was published at Oxford with the See also:title Primavera, which contained contributions by him and by his See also:cousin Laurence See also:Binyon and others
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In 1894 he published Eremus, a See also:long poem of loose structure in See also:blank verse of a philosophical complexion
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In 1596 appeared See also:Christ in Hades, forming with a few other See also:short pieces one of the slim See also:paper-covered volumes of Elkin See also:Mathews's " See also:Shilling See also:Garland." This poem arrested the See also:attention of watchful critics of See also:poetry, and when it was followed by a collection of Poems in 1897 the writer's position as a new poet of exceptional gifts was generally recognized
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This volume contained a new edition of " Christ in Hades," together with " Marpessa," " The Woman with the Dead Soul," " The Wife " and shorter pieces, including the See also:fine lines " To See also:Milton, See also:Blind." The volume won the See also:prize of £too offered by the See also:Academy See also:news-paper for the best new See also:book of its See also:year, ran through See also:half a dozen See also:editions in two years, and established Mr Phillips's See also:rank as poet, which was sustained by the publication in the Nineteenth See also:Century in 1898 of his poem " See also:Endymion." See also:George See also:
Paolo and Francesca (which admitted certainly one See also:scene on an Elizabethan See also:model) was the most successful, the subject being best adapted to the lyrical See also:cast of Mr Phillips's poetical temperament; but all contained fine poetry, skilfully See also:stage-managed by a writer who had See also:practical experience of stage See also:craft
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See the See also:section on Stephen Phillips in Poets of the Younger See also:Generation, by See also: |
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