John Philips (1676-1709): Life, Works, and Reception

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John Philips (1676-1709): Life, Works, and Reception.

Unipub, Oslo 2002, stor 8vo, orig. omslag, 479 s., engelsk tekst, avhandling for graden Doctor Artium, University of Oslo, Department of British and American Studies.

«The one thing everybody knows about John Philips is that he loved having Milton read aloud to him while having his hair brushed. As a recent essay on Philips reminds us, his ‘chief occupation were having servants brush his hair while reading Milton and cavorting with that famous tatterdemalion, Edmund ‘Captain Rag’ Smith’. Philips’s second claim to fame, it appears, is his fabled friendship with Oxford’s once-legendary gifted rebel. Nowadays Edmund Smith is remembered, when at all, for his colourful nicknames — ‘Rag’ or ‘Captain Rag’, and ‘the handsome sloven’ — rather than for anything he ever said or did, or for his verse or drama.»