Philip James Bailey

(1791-1870)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bailey, Philip James, 1816-1902 NRA: Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902) Author DNB: Bailey, Philip James (1816–1902), poet LBT ID: PhBaile1902 VIAF ID: 67823110 LOC ID: n82158329	B/BAP: 1791-07-08 DIED: 1870-01-18
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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.”