John Perreault was an American conceptual and performance artist and art critic who occasionally delved into poetry, although art was his primary interest. He was born John Lucas Perreault on the 26th August 1937 in the Manhattan district of New York City but raised by his French-Canadian parents at several New Jersey locations including Belmar where his father was in the catering business. ...
John Pierpont was an American poet and Unitarian minister. He was also a pioneering teacher, abolitionist and a some-time member of the law profession. He was born on the 6th April 1785 in Litchfield, Connecticut and received a good education, graduating from Yale College at the age of 19. He later returned to his studies in 1816, initially in Baltimore and then at Harvard ...
John Oldham was a 17th century English poet. teacher and translator of work by a 2nd century Roman satirical poet named Juvenal, whose work he often tried to imitate. He was born on the 9th August 1653 in the Gloucestershire village of Shipton Moyne. His father was a non-conformist minister. He had a fairly rigid education, coming under a headmaster at Tetbury Grammar School ...
John Marston was a quirky poet, priest and playwright from England whose work spanned both the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He was known for his satirical style of writing although, on occasions, his writing pushed the boundaries of acceptability and he found himself in trouble with the authorities. He was born around September 1576 in London, the son of a Middle Temple lawyer of ...
John Le Gay Brereton was a poet, university professor and literary critic from Australia. He was one of the few Australian scholars of Elizabethan literature of his day. He was born on the 2nd September 1871 in Sydney, the youngest of five sons. His father was a physician who also happened to be a published poet of the same name and both parents had ...
