Bailey Philip James

Bailey, Philip James, born at Nottingham in 1816, was educated for the law at Glasgow University. He took, however, to poetry, and 1839 startled the world by publishing Festus, a non-acting drama, constructed on lines similar to those of Goethe's Faust, and containing, amidst much that was extravagant and absurd, many passages of originality and beauty. Mr. Bailey's later works, The Angel World. The Mystic, The Age, or The Universal Hymn, were very warmly welcomed.