Who is John Cleveland

John Cleveland (16 June 1613 – 29 April 1658) was an English poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was best known for political satire.

Early life

Cleveland was born in Loughborough, the son of Thomas Cleveland, Vicar of Hinckley (1620–1652), and educated at Hinckley Grammar School. Admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, he graduated BA in 1632 and became a fellow of St John's College in 1634, where he became a college tutor and lecturer in rhetoric.

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A staunch Royalist, Cleveland opposed the election of Oliver Cromwell as member for Cambridge in the Long Parliament and lost his college post as a result in 1645. He then joined Charles I, by whom he was welcomed, and appointed to the office of judge ad...
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John Cleveland Poems

• An Elegy On Ben Jonson
  WHO first reform'd our Stage with justest Lawes,
  And was the first best Judge in his owne Cause?
  Who (when his Actors trembled for Applause)
  ...
• On The Memory Of Mr. Edward King, Drown'd In The Irish Seas
  I like not tears in tune, nor do I prize
  His artificial grief that scans his eyes;
  Mine weep down pious beads, but why should I
  Confine them to the Muses' rosary?...
• The Scots Apostasie
  Is't come to this? What shall the cheeks of fame
  Stretch'd with the breath of learned Loudon's name,
  Be flogg'd again? And that great piece of sense,
  As rich in loyalty and eloquence,...
• The Rebel Scot
  How, Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?
  Then Madam Nature wears black patches too!
  What, shall our nation be in bondage thus
  Unto a land that truckles under us?...
• Mark Antony
  Whenas the nightingale chanted her vespers,
  And the wild forester couched on the ground,
  Venus invited me in th' evening whispers
  Unto a fragrant field with roses crowned,...

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