Philip Stanhope Worsley

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Philip Stanhope Worsley (12 August 1835 – 8 May 1866) was an English poet.

Worsley in 1866 by Julia Margaret Cameron

Life

The son of the Rev. Charles Worsley, he was educated at Highgate School, where he made a lasting impression on Gerard Manley Hopkins, a fellow pupil in his boarding house,^[1] and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize in 1857 with a poem on The Temple of Janus. In 1861 he published a translation of the Odyssey, followed in 1865 by a translation of the first twelve books of the Iliad, in both of which he employed the Spenserian stanza with success.

In 1863, he published a volume of Poems and Translations.

Death

He died at 30 of tuberculosis.^[2]

His unfinished translation of the Iliad was completed after his death by John Conington.

References

1. Abbott, Claude Colleer (1955). The correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 5.
2. Cameron, Julia Margaret (26 June 1980). "Philip Stanhope Worsley". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 23 March 2024.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Worsley, Philip Stanhope". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Garnett, Richard (1900). "Worsley, Philip Stanhope". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Garnett, Richard; Stephan, Megan A. "Worsley, Philip Stanhope (1835–1866)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29985. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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