Philip Stanhope Worsley

English poet

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

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

^ Abbott, Claude Colleer (1955). The correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 5.
^ 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.)