I lived from 1653-1683. I was from England, and am in the English category.
Oldham was born in England in 1653. When old enough he attended Oxford University and after graduating he began a career as a teacher. Among his most well known works are "A Satire Upon a Woman Who by Her Falsehood and Scorn Was the Death of My Friend", written in 1678 and "A Satire Against Virtue" in 1979. He also wrote poems about, and translated some of the works of Juvenal, which were collected in the volume "Poems and Translations" and published after his death. He died at the young age of thirty of smallpox. John Dryden wrote an elegy, "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham", which lamented on his death at such a young age and his unfulfilled potential as a poet.
Source for Biography: http://www.paralumun.com/biojohnoldham.htm
Source for Biography: http://www.paralumun.com/biojohnoldham.htm
My poetry
- Thy soul within such silent pomp did keep,
As if humanity were lull'd asleep;11 lines, 3 comments - A pox of this fooling, and plotting of late,
What a pother, and stir has it kept in the state?43 lines, 2 comments
