Philip James Bailey

Philip James Bailey ( born April 22, 1816 in Nottingham, Nottingham † September 6, 1902 ) was an English lawyer and poet.

Philip James Bailey grew up in Nottingham, where his father Thomas Bailey ( † 1856) the Nottingham Mercury edited. He studied law in Glasgow and in 1840 a ​​lawyer. Bayley devoted his time but mainly the seal and completed in the 20th year of his Festus ( Lond. 1839, 10th edition 1877), a lyric- dramatic treatment of the Faust legend, which generally met with approval. Eleven years later the poem The angelworld (1850), which in later editions of Festus, he united with this. But the latter as well as the seals The mystic (1855 ) and The universal hymn (1867 ) spoke the reading world at much less. In addition, the satirical work The age; politics, to mention poetry and criticism (1858 ). In still other field Bailey has tried in The international policy of the great powers (1861 ). Later the poet lived in his native town.