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PHILLIPS, STEPHEN (1868– )

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PHILLIPS, See also:STEPHEN (1868– ) , See also:British poet and dramatist, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:July 1868 at Somertown near See also:Oxford, the son of the Rev. Stephen Phillips, See also:precentor of See also:Peterborough See also:Cathedral. He was educated at See also:Stratford and Peterborough See also:Grammar See also:Schools, and entered See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Cambridge; but during his first See also:term at Cambridge, when F. R. See also:Benson's dramatic See also:company visited the See also:town, he joined it, and for six years played various small parts. In 1890 a slender See also:volume of See also:verse was published at Oxford with the See also:title Primavera, which contained contributions by him and by his See also:cousin Laurence See also:Binyon and others. In 1894 he published Eremus, a See also:long poem of loose structure in See also:blank verse of a philosophical complexion. In 1596 appeared See also:Christ in Hades, forming with a few other See also:short pieces one of the slim See also:paper-covered volumes of Elkin See also:Mathews's " See also:Shilling See also:Garland." This poem arrested the See also:attention of watchful critics of See also:poetry, and when it was followed by a collection of Poems in 1897 the writer's position as a new poet of exceptional gifts was generally recognized. This volume contained a new edition of " Christ in Hades," together with " Marpessa," " The Woman with the Dead Soul," " The Wife " and shorter pieces, including the See also:fine lines " To See also:Milton, See also:Blind." The volume won the See also:prize of £too offered by the See also:Academy See also:news-paper for the best new See also:book of its See also:year, ran through See also:half a dozen See also:editions in two years, and established Mr Phillips's See also:rank as poet, which was sustained by the publication in the Nineteenth See also:Century in 1898 of his poem " See also:Endymion." See also:George See also:Alexander, the actor-manager, moved perhaps by a certain clamour among the critics for a See also:literary See also:drama, then commissioned Mr Phillips to write him a See also:play, the result being See also:Paolo and Francesca (1900), a drama founded on See also:Dante's famous See also:episode. Encouraged by the See also:great success of the drama in its literary See also:form, Mr Alexander produced the piece at the St See also:James's See also:Theatre in the course of 19ot. In the meantime, Mr Phillips's next play, See also:Herod: a Tragedy, had been produced by Beerbohm See also:Tree on the 31st of See also:October 1900, and was published as a book in 1901; Ulysses, also produced by Beerbohm Tree, was published in 1902; The See also:Sin of See also:David, a drama on the See also:story of David and Bathsheba, translated into the times and terms of Cromwellian See also:England, was published in 1904; and See also:Nero, produced by Beerbohm Tree, was published in 1906. In these plays the poet's avowed aim was, instead of attempting to revive the method of See also:Shakespeare and the Elizabethans, to revitalize the method of See also:Greek drama.

Paolo and Francesca (which admitted certainly one See also:

scene on an Elizabethan See also:model) was the most successful, the subject being best adapted to the lyrical See also:cast of Mr Phillips's poetical temperament; but all contained fine poetry, skilfully See also:stage-managed by a writer who had See also:practical experience of stage See also:craft. See the See also:section on Stephen Phillips in Poets of the Younger See also:Generation, by See also:William See also:Archer (19o2); also the articles on "Tragedy and Mr Stephen Phillips," by William See also:Watson, in the Fortnightly See also:Review (See also:March 1898) ; " The Poetry of Mr Stephen Phillips," in the See also:Edinburgh Review (See also:January 1900); " Mr Stephen Phillips," in the Century (January 1901), by See also:Edmund See also:Gosse; and " Mr Stephen Phillips," in the Quarterly Review (See also:April 1902), by See also:Arthur See also:Symons. For bibliography up to July 1903, see See also:English Illustrated See also:Magazine new See also:series, vol. See also:xxix. p. 442.

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