Bailey, Philip James, English poet, born in Nottingham; author of “Festus,” a work that on its appearance in 1839 was received with enthusiasm, passed through 11 editions in England and 30 in America, was succeeded by “The Angel World,” “The Mystic,” “The Universal Hymn,” and “The Age”; he has been rated by some extravagantly high; (b. 1816).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bailey, Nathan * Bailey, Samuel