Data de nascimento: 1615
Data de falecimento: 10. Março 1669
Sir John Denham FRS was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
— John Denham
Context: Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme!
Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
Cooper's Hill, Line 189.
— John Denham
On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. Compare: "Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill", Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Prologues (republished in Dramatic Works, 1739); "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne", Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
— John Denham
The Sophy: A Tragedy, Act I, scene ii.
— John Denham
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 9.
— John Denham
The Destruction of Troy (1656), Preface.
— John Denham
The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii.
— John Denham
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido (1648), line 1.
— John Denham
Of Prudence (1668), line 83.
— John Denham
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 15.
— John Denham
Misattributed, Not by Denham, as often stated, but by Thomas Dekker. It is in his The Honest Whore Part 2, Act I, scene 2.
