Richard Lovelace
| Noun | 1. |  Richard Lovelace - English poet (1618-1857) |
| 单词 | richard lovelace | |||
| 释义 | Richard Lovelace
Richard LovelaceLovelace, Richard,1618–1657?, one of the English Cavalier poetsCavalier poets,a group of English poets associated with Charles I and his exiled son. Most of their work was done between c.1637 and 1660. Their poetry embodied the life and culture of upper-class, pre-Commonwealth England, mixing sophistication with naïveté, ..... Click the link for more information. . He was the son of a Kentish knight and was educated at Oxford. In 1642 he was briefly imprisoned for having presented to Parliament a petition for the restoration of the bishops. An ardent royalist, he served with the French army during the English civil war. On his return to England in 1648, he was imprisoned by the Commonwealth. His royalist sympathies lost him his entire fortune, and he died in extreme poverty. He is remembered almost solely for two extremely graceful, melodic, and much-quoted lyrics, "To Althea, from Prison" and "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars." The first volume of his poems, Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c., appeared in 1649; the companion volume, Lucasta: Posthume Poems, in 1660. BibliographySee edition of his poems ed. by C. H. Wilkinson (1930); biography by M. Weidhorn (1970). Richard Lovelace
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