“Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.”
About John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683
There is something peculiarly poignant about a poet who burns with such fierce satirical energy, who seems to embody the very spirit of angry, impatient youth, and who then dies at thirty years old — as if the intensity of the flame had consumed the wick. John Oldham lived only three decades, yet in that brief span he…