John Oldham

(1653-1683)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Oldham, John, 1653-1683 DNB: Oldham, John (1653-1683), poet LBT ID: JoOldha1683 VIAF ID: 46885246 LOC ID: n82096118	B/BAP: 1653-08-09 DIED: 1683-12
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English poet much admired in the Restoration era for his rugged satires; Dryden wrote commemorative verses upon his early death.
REFERENCES TO John Oldham: Matthew Gregory Lewis to Walter Scott, [1798] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Dorothy Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 17 February 1823 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [18 February 1836] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 1: ¶ n1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter X. 1822-24. Chapter III. 1834-1837.