Background
The son of the Rev. Charles Worsley, he was educated at Highgate School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize in 1857 with a poem on The Temple of Janus.
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Philip Worsley
Philip Stanhope Worsley was an English poet.
Education
Highgate School.
Career
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. His unfinished translation of the Iliad was completed after his death by John Conington.
Achievements
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He won the Newdigate prize in 1857 with a poem on "The Temple of Janus. " In 1863, he published a volume of Poems and Translations.
His original poems differ widely in merit, but those on classical subjects reach a very high level indeed. “Phaethon, ” the opening poem of the “Poems and Translations” volume, is a splendid work, and but for its length would have been included in the body of this work, though it may be added that its length is in itself hardly sufficient excuse for its omission. It displays fine imagination, and a capacity for the large handling of a great theme.
