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SIR JOHNDENHAM (1615-1669), English poet, only son of Sir JohnDenham (1559-1639), lord chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, was born in Dublin in 1615.
He was entrusted with the charge of forwarding letters to and from the king when he was in the custody of the parliament, a duty which he discharged successfully with Abraham Cowley, but in 1648 he was suspected by the Parliamentary authorities, and thought it wiser to cross the Channel.
While Denham was recovering, his wife died, poisoned, it was said, by a cup of chocolate.
English poet, only son of Sir JohnDenham, lord chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, was born in Dublin in 1615.
His qualifications as an architect were probably slight, but it is safe to regard as grossly exaggerated the accusations of incompetence and peculation made by Samuel Butler in his brutal "Panegyric upon Sir JohnDenham's Recovery from his Madness." He eventually secured the services of Christopher Wren as deputy surveyor.
John Dryden called Cooper's Hill "the exact standard of good writing", and Pope in his Windsor Forest called him "majestic Denham." His collected poems with a dedicatory epistle to Charles II appeared in 1668.
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