id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3647 John Suckling (poet) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2189 221 73 John Suckling (poet) Wikipedia The poet inherited his father's estate at the age of 18, having attended Trinity College, Cambridge from 1623 and enrolled at Gray's Inn in 1627.[2] His intimates included Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Nabbes and especially John Hales and Sir William Davenant, who later furnished John Aubrey with information about him.[3] In 1628, Suckling left London for France and Italy, returning before the autumn of 1630, when he was knighted. The Poems and Songs of Sir John Suckling, edited by John Gray and decorated with woodcut border and initials by Charles Ricketts, was artistically printed at the Ballantyne Press in 1896. For anecdotes of Suckling's life see John Aubrey's Brief Lives (Clarendon Press ed., ii.242).[3] The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse. "Suckling, Sir John (bap. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3647.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3647.txt