1614 - 1669
John Denham (poet) British Playwright
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1613
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| Died |
19th March, 1669
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Playwright
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Sir John Denham FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier, who wrote an acclaimed pastoral epic in his poem Cooper's Hill. During the Civil War he served the Royalist cause in various capacities, enjoying the trust and favour of Charles I and Henrietta Maria and assisting in their embassies and secret correspondence. Having lost most of his estates by sequestration for delinquency (in supporting the royal cause) and through a disposition to gambling, at the Restoration he recovered his fortunes, and became Surveyor of the King's Works (between the terms of office of Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren). The happiness of his last years was tainted by his young wife's adulterous affair with the Duke of York, whom Denham had personally rescued as a young man from the parliament forces and borne safely to his mother the Queen in Holland. He is buried among the poets in Westminster Abbey.
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