Collected Works: The Translations of Katherine Philips,the Matchless Orinda

by Katherine Philips

Genres: Poetry

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Katherine Philips was an Anglo-Welsh poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and for her editions of poetry.

Reviews

[Jacky Chan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting figure whose poetry celebrated and, in a sense, maintained (through their wide circulation and performance) the royalist aesthetic of power-in-retreat and of neo-Platonism as harmony and solidarity. The syntax is far too annoyingly weird and convoluted, though, for me to give it anything more than three stars.

[dóra balázs · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Tis not thy love I fear to lose,
That will in spite of absence hold"