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Richard Lovelace (1617–1657) joined the Court after his
university days and served in King Charles I’s brief and
inglorious military campaign in Scotland. He was given the position
of a “Gentlemen Wayter Extra-ordinary” to the King, and wrote
an elegy to the Princess Katherine, who died the day she was born.
After the failure of the Scottish campaign, he returned to his home
in Kent, where he took up public posts befitting his standing.
Alas, in 1642 he was imprisoned in Westminster for his temerity in
presenting a petition to Parliament in support of the King – he
was accompanied by 500 armed Kentish men, which probably did not
help his case – and during his time in jail he wrote the poem
‘To Althea. From Prison’, with its immortal lines, “Stone
walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” Following his
release some weeks later he joined General Goring to fight in the
Netherlands, as his father had done. He remained in Holland and
France until 1646, and then returned to London. Upon his return he
was imprisoned again. Released in 1649, he then published the
volume Lucasta. He died in some poverty in 1658, and his brother
and friends gathered up his remaining manuscripts and published a
further posthumous volume of his work. A good poet from the group
that regarded Ben Jonson as friend and exemplar, his work deserves
more attention than it usually receives. As with his friend Sir
John Suckling, he has tended to be overshadowed by the great names
of the era — and there were so many of those, but his work
deserves its place in the sun.
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Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2020 |
Authors: |
Richard Lovelace
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
186 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-617-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-617-1 |
Barcode: |
9781848616172 |
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