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Subject: DENHAM, SIR JOHN (1615-1669)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Last Line: Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Dillon, Wentworth. 4th Earl Of Roscommon; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Hope; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Sozzini, Lelio (1525-1562); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Optimism; Soc


TO M. DENHAM, ON HIS PROSPECTIVE POEM, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or lookt I back unto the times hence flown
Last Line: Lesse by their own jemms, then those beams of thine.
Subject(s): Denham, Sir John (1615-1669)


WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats
Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains.
Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History