Fugitive Papers : Orinda’s Literary Career

To study Katherine Phillips'career, focusing on her life and literary legacy, analysing some lines from a historicist perspective, with a particular emphasis on the socio-political context and the author's self-representation within her work. As a point of departure, I reflect on what position Katherine Philips occupied in the literary landscape of her time, what level of professionalisation she achieved, and the degree of success she attained through her work, both in her own time and subsequently. I will also enquire into what rhetorical, poetical and linguistic devices Orinda employs in her poetry, and what objectives these strategies suggest.