JOHN PHILIPS BIOGRAPHY
JOHN PHILIPS BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1709). —Poet, s. of an archdeacon of Salop, and ed. at Oxf. His Splendid Shilling , a burlesque in Miltonic blank verse, still lives, and Cyder , his chief work, an imitation of Virgil's Georgics , has some fine descriptive passages. P. was also employed by Harley to write verses on Blenheim as a counterblast to Addison's Campaign . He d. at 33 of consumption.