John Dennys

Title page of first edition (1613)in the Bodleian, shelfmark 8vo.D 15 Art.
Court House at Pucklechurch, Gloucester

John Dennys (died 1609), a poet and fisherman, pioneered Angling poetry in England. His only work The Secrets of Angling was the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing. John Dennys may have been an acquaintance of Shakespeare.