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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the Date of my Letter infonns you; and the Reafon no Myfiery to you, who are no Stranger tbe great Frillldfbip I
of my being here will ftift to Hit/- (elf of the Yoyagt, 4IIa
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your excellent Vc ruon of it. To bribe you farther, I will fend you mine do
it; and be.
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Compliments to me, has not only
of Honour and Efteem, and there. in, much more than by all his
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with fo much Elegancy on fo unde-: For fiffio::t, you proper Employment of the Muft's. Let me have your
of tht'm, which, if you fortune
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relt your humble Servants. but none
of your here are moch of them in an Degree LETTER
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in the Itllli4tt, and the worfi in tbe about it, having certainly as
ElIglifb: He but Hours
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q:trcmely; and [ lhould think my felf very happy, the other as well
if I underfl:ood
