William Philpot

1823–1889 · 1 work on Laurel, 34 lines, all free to read

Ebenezer Colls, Destruction of the 'Droits de l'Homme', 13 January 1797 — a nineteenth-century sea piece.

William Philpot lived from 1823 to 1889. The poem here comes from Arthur Quiller-Couch’s Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), which prints under this name a single poem, ‘Maritæ Suæ’.

We have found no published life of this poet to draw on, so this note says only what the edition itself says. Little else is recorded.

This life was written for Laurel from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (1900). No Wikipedia article records this poet.

Works

Poems · 1823–1889