Ambrose Philips [Namby Pamby]

(1674-1749)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Philips, Ambrose, 1674-1749 NRA: Philips Ambrose (1674-1749) Poet DNB: Philips, Ambrose (bap. 1674, d. 1749), poet and playwright LBT ID: AmPhili1749 VIAF ID: 49250263 LOC ID: n82044773	B/BAP: 1674-10-09 DIED: 1749-06
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English poet and associate of Joseph Addison; author of The Distrest Mother (1712); his English pastorals were the butt of wit from Alexander Pope and John Gay.
REFERENCES TO Ambrose Philips [Namby Pamby]: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, February 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1817 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. X. 1804