Phillips, John (1631–1706)

English poet and author. His chief works, which are remarkable for licentious and coarse wit, pungent satire, and a generally controversial scurrility, are A Satyr against Hypocrites 1655; Montelion, or the Prophetic Almanack 1660; Maronides, or Virgil Travesty 1673, which like some of his other works is in the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras; The August Britannicus 1697; and The Vision of Mons 1706. He was the nephew of John Milton.

Edward Phillips (1630–c. 1696), his brother, wrote Theatrum poetarum 1675, a collection of ancient and contemporary poets, with criticisms.