Selected Poetry of John Cleveland (1613-1658)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,
University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department
of English, University of Toronto
Index to poems
- On the Memory of Mr. Edward King, Drown'd in the Irish Seas
Notes on Life and Works
- The Poems of John Cleveland. Ed. Brian Morris and Eleanor Withington. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
- Cousins, A. D.. “Cleveland, John (bap. 1613, d. 1658).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Biographical information
Given name: John
Family name: Cleveland
Birth date: June 1613
Death date: 29 April 1658
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: Thomas Cleveland
Languages
Latin
Greek
Education
Hinckley, Rev. Richard Vynes
Christ's College, Cambridge (B.A.): 4 September 1627 to 1631
St. John's College (M.A.): 27 March 1634 to 1635
Oxford (M.A.) to 1637
Religion: Presbyterian
Politics: Royalist
Literary movement: Metaphysical Poets
Literary period: Caroline
Occupations
Teacher
Minister: 1621
Residences
Gray's Inn
Loughborough, Leicestershire: June 1613
Cause of death: Fever
Buried at: St. Michael Royal on College Hill churchyard
First RPO edition: 1996 -2000
