Authority Cited: Oldham
Author name and dates: John Oldham (1653-1683)
BKG Bio-tweet: School Usher; tutor; poet; satires pub. anonymously; died of smallpox, age 30; Juvenal Satires imitations pub. posthumously
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: five Oldham cites were identified in 1755 Dict. vol.1, three Oldham cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Oldham cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition of Oldham's Works or Remains used by SJ is unknown, but may be the 1722 edition, which contains a Memoir of Oldham and the quote included for latinist in the 1773 Dict. cited as Oldham's Life. An early edition is the 1684 title below, in which all of the Oldham quotations were located.]
The works of Mr. John Oldham, together with his Remains, 1684, London: Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh Bookseller to his Royal Highness, at the Black Bull in Cornhil
Author name and dates: John Oldham (1653-1683)
BKG Bio-tweet: School Usher; tutor; poet; satires pub. anonymously; died of smallpox, age 30; Juvenal Satires imitations pub. posthumously
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: five Oldham cites were identified in 1755 Dict. vol.1, three Oldham cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Oldham cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition of Oldham's Works or Remains used by SJ is unknown, but may be the 1722 edition, which contains a Memoir of Oldham and the quote included for latinist in the 1773 Dict. cited as Oldham's Life. An early edition is the 1684 title below, in which all of the Oldham quotations were located.]
The works of Mr. John Oldham, together with his Remains, 1684, London: Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh Bookseller to his Royal Highness, at the Black Bull in Cornhil
- An Ode of Anacreon Paraphrased, The Cup; fry; too;
- A SATYR. The Person of Spencer is brought in, Dissuading the Author from the Study of POETRY, and shewing how little it is esteem'd and encouraged in this present Age; fine; poach;
- A SATYR. Addressed to a Friend, that is about to leave the University, and come abroad in the World; accountable;
- The Lamentation for ADONIS. Imitated out of the Greek of Bion of Smyrna. PASTORAL; gone;
- Upon a Printer that exposed him by Printing a Piece of his grosly mangled, and faulty; gibbet; through;