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Metaphysical & Cavalier

Sir John Denham

1615–1669

Sir John Denham (1615–1669) was an English poet best known for Cooper's Hill (1642), a landscape meditation that founded the English topographical poem.

His couplets were much admired by Dryden and Pope for their balance and control.

Poems (34)

  1. Coopers Hill.
  2. Psalm 1
  3. On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death.
  4. On my Lord Croft's and my Iourney into Poland, from whence we brought 10000 l. for his Majesty by the Decimation of his Scottish Subjects there.
  5. On Mr. Tho. Killigrew's Return from his Embassie from Venice, and Mr. William Murry's from Scotland.
  6. To Sir John Mennis being invited from Calice to Bologne to eat a Pig.
  7. Natura Naturata.
  8. Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus in the 12th of Homer.
  9. Martial. Epigram.
  10. Friendship and single life against Love and Marriage.
  11. ON Mr ABRAHAM COWLEY His Death and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets.
  12. A Speech against Peace at the close Committee.
  13. To the five Members of the Honourable House of Commons.
  14. A Western Wonder.
  15. A Second Western Wonder.
  16. News from Colchester.
  17. A SONG.
  18. On Mr John Fletchers Works.
  19. To Sir Richard Fanshaw upon his Translation of Pastor Fido.
  20. A Dialogue between Sir John Pooley and Mr. Thomas Killigrew.
  21. An occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess.
  22. The Passion of Dido for Aeneas.
  23. Of Prudence.
  24. Of Iustice.
  25. The Preface.
  26. The Progress of Learning.
  27. The Prologue.
  28. Psalm 23
  29. Psalm 121
  30. Psalm 133
  31. The Destruction of Troy
  32. To the Hon. Edward Howard, on 'The British Princes'
  33. Elegy on the Death of Henry Lord Hastings, 1650
  34. Of Old Age

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