Author:John Denham

John Denham
(1615–1669)

John Denham

Works

• The Sophy (1642)
• Coopers-hill (1642)
• Cato Major (1648), verse translation from Cicero
• The Destruction of Troy, with a preface on translation (1656)
• Anatomy of Play (1651)
• Second and Third Advices to a Painter for describing our Naval Business (1667)
• Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches (1744)

Works about Denham

• "Sir John Denham, Knight of the Bath," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 37), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Denham" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.97-112.
• "Denham, John (1615-1669)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Sir John Denham," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (7) (1878)
• "Denham, Sir John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Denham, Sir John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Sir John Denham and "Coopers Hill", by John Churton Collins in 'Poets' Country' (1907)