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Denham, Sir John
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Date: 20000101
Author:ROBERT WELCH
Denham, Sir John
(1615–1669), soldier and poet. Born in Dublin, he became English Surveyor-General at the Restoration. His first work was a Turkish tragedy called The Sophy (1641). Cooper's Hill (1643), his best-known work, was accepted as a model of style by Dryden and Pope. His version of the second book of Virgil's Aeneid was published as The Destruction of Troy (1656), with a preface on translation.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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