Katherine Philips
From LGBT Archive
Revision as of 17:31, 4 January 2012 by Ross Burgess (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Katherine Philips''' (1632–1664) was an Anglo-Welsh poet. She created a "Society of Friendship", in which she was known as "Orinda", and her poems celebrate the refined...")
Katherine Philips (1632–1664) was an Anglo-Welsh poet.
She created a "Society of Friendship", in which she was known as "Orinda", and her poems celebrate the refined pleasures of platonic love. it has been argued that her poems are lebian in nature[1] but this view is not universally accepted.
References
- ↑ Harriette Andreadis, "The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1989. Volume 15, number 1, page 59.
