John Cleveland (June 16, 1613 - April 29, 1658) was an English poet. The son of an usher in a charity school, Cleveland was born in Loughborough, and educated at Hinckley Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, where he became college tutor and lecturer on rhetoric at St John's College, and was much sought after. A staunch Royalist, he opposed the election of Oliver Cromwell as member for Cambridge in the Long Parliament, … Wikipedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on John Cleveland: English poet, the most popular of his time, and then and in later times the most commonly abused Metaphysical poet. www.britannica.com/eb/article-9024362
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