Youth, what man’s age is like to be doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
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| Birth: | 1615 |
| Death: | 1669 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Politician, Surveyor |
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Sir John Denham was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was a British poet, courtier and politician. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He was a Member of Parliament for Old Sarum in 1661, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663, and became a Knight of the Bath. He began his literary career with a tragedy, The Sophy, but his poem, Cooper's Hill, is the work by which he is remembered.
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