“Business is a kind of material body without which the spiritual life is a kind of ghost. In the perfect life they are essential to each other.”
About William Philpot
16 April 1823–16 April 1889
William Philpot was born on 16 April 1823 and died on 16 April 1889, completing a life of exactly sixty-six years. His career belongs to the enormous, uneven, and still incompletely recovered field of nineteenth-century poetry: the work of writers who published in small editions, contributed to local or denominational…