Birth date: 
06/16/1613
Death date: 
04/29/1658
Birth town: 
Loughborough
Country: 
England

John Cleveland was an English poet.

The son of an usher in a charity school, Cleveland was born in Loughborough, 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. At St John's Cleveland became college tutor and lecturer on rhetoric, and was much sought after. A staunch Royalist, he opposed the election of Oliver Cromwell as member for Cambridge in the Long Parliament, and lost his college post as a result in 1645. Joining Charles I, by whom he was welcomed, he was appointed to the office of Judge Advocate at Newark. In 1646, however, he lost this office, and wandered about the country dependent on the bounty of the Royalists. In 1655 he was imprisoned at Yarmouth, but released by Cromwell, to whom he appealed, and went to London, where he lived till his death. His best work is satirical, slightly reminiscent of Hudibras; his other poems are considered mediocre. The Poems were published in 1656.

John Cleveland's Works:

Poems (1656)

Poems by this Poet

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Elegy on Edward King 5 September 2014
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Come keen iambic with your badger's feet 29 November 2013
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And why so coffined in this vile disguise 29 November 2013
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Anacreon 19 May 2014
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An Elegy On Ben Jonson 31 July 2013
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A Young Man to an Old Woman Courting Him 5 September 2014
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A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her 5 September 2014
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A Fair Nymph Scorning a Black Boy Courting Her 5 September 2014
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A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath 19 May 2014
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