Philip James Bailey (1791-1870)
The son of Thomas Bailey, editor of the Nottingham Mercury;
educated at Glasgow University and Lincoln's Inn, he was the author of Festus (1839) an early example of the “spasmodic school of
poetry.”
The son of Thomas Bailey, editor of the Nottingham Mercury;
educated at Glasgow University and Lincoln's Inn, he was the author of Festus (1839) an early example of the “spasmodic school of
poetry.”