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Sir John Denham (born 1615, Dublin, Ireland—died March 10, 1669, London, England) was a poet who established as a new English genre the leisurely meditative poem describing a particular landscape. Educated at the University of Oxford, Denham was admitted to the bar, but he was already actively writing.
Sir John Denham FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey . [1]
John Yorke Denham FRSA [2] (born 15 July 1953) is an English politician who served as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills from 2007 to 2009 and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Itchen from ...
John Denham 1615-1669. English poet, playwright, translator, and essayist. Active in both literary and political circles of seventeenth-century England, John Denham enjoyed critical praise...
5 de may. de 2016 · Sir John Denham (1614/15–1669) Reassessed shines new light on a singular, colourful yet elusive figure of seventeenth-century English letters. Despite his influence as a poet, wit, courtier,...
Learn about John Denham (1615–1669), an Irish-born poet who wrote Cooper's Hill, a topographical poem with political and moral reflections. Find out how his poetry influenced the transition from metaphysical to neoclassical style.
John, only son of Sir John Denham, one of the barons of the Exchequer, was born in Dublin about 1615 or 1616, during his father's tour of duty in Ireland, and matriculated from Trinity College, Oxford, on 18 November 1631 at the age of 16, as of 'Horseley parva' (Little Horkesley) in Essex.
