Lucasta Poems (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Lovelace
- First Published: 1649
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Cavalier poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Royal courts or courtiers
Critical Evaluation:
To most readers, Richard Lovelace is remembered for two lines each of two songs. He voiced for all those spirits who have suffered in prison, who have thought or composed thoughts in jails, the perfect expression of the free will in “Stone Walls doe not a Prison make,/ Nor I’ron bars a Cage,” and he expressed his own high standards as a gentleman, soldier, scholar, and poet in lines which he wrote when going off to war: “I could not love thee (Deare) so much,/ Lov’d I not Honour more.” A Royalist by birth and politics, the poet lost a modest...
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