ABSTRACT
Edward Phillips (163O-?1696), Milton's nephew, had an undistinguished career as a tutor, hack writer, and compiler. He gave a potted survey of Donne's career in a collection of material on the poets, neatly adapting Walton to the manners of a different age (Theatrum Poetarum, 1675, pp. 106-7). Phillips praised Donne more forthrightly in a Latin account of him published a few years later ('Compendiosa Enumeratio Poetarum', in]. Buchler, Sacrarum Profanarumqlle Ph,asi,ll1l Poeticarum Thesaurus, 17th ed., 1679, P·398).
