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, Cooper's Hill
Cooper's Hill, Line 189.
Contexto: 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.
Fonte: Of Prudence (1668), line 1
Fonte: Of Prudence (1668), line 229
The Sophy: A Tragedy, Act I, scene ii.
The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii.
Not by Denham, as often stated, but by Thomas Dekker. It is in his The Honest Whore Part 2, Act I, scene 2.
Misattributed
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.
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 9.
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido (1648), line 1.
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 15.
Of Prudence (1668), line 83.
