Ambrose Philips

Ambrose Philips (baptized Oct. 9, 1674, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng.—died June 18, 1749, London) was an English poet and playwright associated with pastoral literature. Philips was educated at the University of Cambridge. His first and best-known poems were collected in Pastorals and were probably written while he was a fellow at Cambridge, although they were not published until 1710. For Pastorals, published in one of Jacob Tonson’s several volumes entitled Miscellany, Philips won immediate praise from...