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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Oldham (1653–1683)

Oldham, John. An English poet and satirist; born in Shipton, Gloucestershire, in Aug. 1653; died in 1683. He is chiefly remembered for his satires, which were not without influence on the school of Pope. Among them are: ‘Satires upon the Jesuits’ (1681); ‘Satire against Virtue’ (1681).