Keywords

Katherine Philips, Women Writers, English Civil War, Wales, 17th Century, Friendship, Religious Poetry

Abstract

Katherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664) was an Anglo-Welsh Royalist poet and translator. Philips authored over a hundred poems on female friendship, theology, politics, and the nature of souls before an early death by smallpox in 1664. Two volumes of Philips’s work were published in 1664 and 1667 (posthumously).

This volume is a diplomatic transcript of her autograph manuscript known as Tutin, now held in the National Library of Wales (MS 775B). Included in the transcript are the missing sections of several poems taken from the 1664 edition of Poems by the incomparable Mrs. K.P. and the poem “A Sea=voyage from Tenby to Bristoll began the 5th. Sept: 1652,” one of the missing poems form the middle of the manuscript. The poems are marked where supplementary material has been consulted.

The manuscript was written recto and verso, and page numbers have been added to the manuscript by a later hand. This volume follows that numbering.

This transcription was done by Washington C Pearce, a BYU graduate student; assisted by Dr. Jason Kerr and Dr. Jeremy Browne