CRITICISM

Easton, Celia A. “Excusing the Breach of Nature's Laws: The Discourse of Denial and Disguise in Katherine Philips’ Friendship Poetry.” Restoration: Studies in English Literature Culture, 1660–1700, 14, no. 1 (spring 1990): 1–14.

Associates Philips's strategies of political disguise and sexual repression with her exploration of poetic language.

Evans, Robert C. “Paradox in Poetry and Politics: Katherine Philips in the Interregnum.” In The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination, edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, pp. 174-85. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.

Discusses Philips's poetry in the context of pre-Restoration English politics and argues that the period's political complexity contributes to the artistic richness of Philips's poetry.

Gosse, Edmund. “The Matchless Orinda.” In Seventeenth Century Studies: A Contribution to the History of English Poetry, by William Heinemann, pp. 229–58. London, 1897.

Originally published in Cornhill Magazine in 1881. Provides an overview of Philips's writing.

Hageman, Elizabeth H. “The Matchless Orinda: Katherine Philips.” In Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, pp. 566-608. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Provides an overview of Philips's poetry.

Hobby, Elaine. “Romantic Love—Poetry.” In Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing, 1649–88, 99. 128–42. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.

Examines Philips's persona and her poems celebrating female friendship.

Limbert, Claudia A. “Katherine Philips: Controlling a Life and Reputation” South Atlantic Review, 56, no. 2 (May 1991): 24–42.

Questions the relevance of critical preoccupation with Philips's sexual identity and examines the methods by which she protected her literary reputation.

Limbert, Claudia A. “‘The Unison of Well-Tun'd Hearts’: Katherine Philips' Friendships with Male Writers.” English Language Notes 29, no. 1 (September 1991): 25-37.

Speculates on Philips's friendships with such writers as Henry Lawes, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton.

Sant, Patricia M., and James N. Brown. “Two Unpublished Poems by Katherine Philips.¹” English Literary Renaissance 24 no. 1 (winter 1994): 211-28.

Chronicles the establishment of authenticity of five pre-publication poems attributed to Philips.

Thomas, Patrick. Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’). University of Wales Press, 1988, 71 p.

Surveys Philips's life and career.

Additional coverage of Philips's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 131; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 30; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to English Literature.