In 1692, more than two decades after the death of John Denham, John Dryden paid homage to the poet as he recalled a conversation he had had "about Twenty Years ago" with Sir George Mackenzie:

 
    He asked me why I did not imitate in my Verses, the turns of Mr. 
    Waller, and Sir John Denham; of which, he repeated many to me: I 
    had often read with pleasure, and with some profit, those two 
    Fathers of our English Poetry; but had not seriously consider'd 
    those Beauties which give the last perfection to their Works." (1) 

The largesse of this tribute, ...

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