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PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY (1835-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIP See also:STANHOPE See also:WORSLEY (1835-1866)  , See also:English poet, son of the Rev . See also:Charles See also:Worsley, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:August 1835, and was educated at See also:Highgate See also:grammar school and Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he won the See also:Newdigate See also:prize in 1857 with a poem on " The See also:Temple of See also:Janus." In 1861 he published a See also:translation of the Odyssey, followed in 1865 by a translation of the first twelve books of the Iliad, hi both of which he employed the Spenserian See also:stanza with success . In 1863 appeared a See also:volume of Poems and See also:Translations . Worsley died on the 8th of May 1866 . His translation of the Iliad was completed after his See also:death by See also:John See also:Conington .

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