Philip Stanhope Worsley

Worsley in 1866 by Julia Margaret Cameron

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

Life

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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

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He died at 30 of tuberculosis.[2]

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

References

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  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.
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