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John Cotton (17 December 1801 – 14 December 1849) was a British poet, ornithological writer and artist, who became an early pastoral settler in Victoria, Australia. Cotton was born in Balham, London and educated in Richmond .
John Langhorne was an English clergyman, poet, translator, editor and author. He was born in March 1735 in Winton, a village in the former Westmorland, now the Eden District of Cumbria: In Eden's vale where early fancy wrought Her wild embroidery on the ground of thought. [1] He died on 1 April 1779, in Blagdon, Somerset
John Locke (1847–1889) was an Irish writer and Fenian activist, exiled to the United States, [1] and most famous for writing "Dawn on the Irish Coast", also known as "The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast".
John Thompson (17 Mar 1938 – 26 Apr 1976) was an English-born, Canadian poet, translator and university professor. He is noted for his mastery of poetic forms, which he used to express the intensity and power of images in spare and precise language evoking beauty and wonder, anguish and despair.
John Scott (9 January 1731 [1] – 12 December 1783), known as Scott of Amwell, was an English landscape gardener and writer on social matters. He was also the first notable Quaker poet, although in modern times he is remembered for only one anti-militarist poem.
John Lawton Wilkinson (born 1953) is a contemporary English poet. From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge , United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert , the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts.
Sir John Salusbury (1567 – 24 July 1612) was a Welsh knight, politician and poet of the Elizabethan era. He is notable for his opposition to the faction of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , and for his patronage of complex acrostic and allegorical poetry that anticipated the Metaphysical movement .
John Marr and Other Sailors is a volume of poetry published by Herman Melville in 1888. Melville published twenty-five copies at his own expense, indicating that they ...