ABSTRACT
Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who became widely known for her innovative use of Donnean poetics to express passionate female friendship, her occasional verses on private friends and public figures, and her moral and political acuity. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. Fortunately recent research has clarified our understanding of who Philips was and how she conducted her literary career.
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Than Thrones more great and innocent i ’Twere banifhment to be fet free, Since we wear fetters whofe intent
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And ro.bc flatter'd, rich, and great, But grave Experience long fince this did fee, Ambition and Content would ne'er agree.
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Yet Tie once more on that harfh Theam proceed, In hope a New attempt may better fpced j And I’le believe. ----- He comes, let me be gone,
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My heart I gave to Hprace, and ’tis true, Since he’s a Roman, I muft be fo too : Butyet that Knot a Fetter would be thoui'ht, If my dear Country (hould be quite forgot.
