See also:RICHARD See also:LOVELACE (1618-1658)
, See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Woolwich in 1618
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He was a See also:scion of a Kentish See also:family, and inherited a tradition of military distinction, maintained by successive generations from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Edward III
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His See also:father, See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Lovelace, had served in the See also:Low Countries, received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood from See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., and was killed at Grolle in 1628
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His See also:brother, See also:Francis Lovelace, the " See also:Colonel Francis " of Lucasta, served on the See also:side of See also:Charles I., and de-fended Caermarthen in 1644
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His See also:mother's family was legal; her grandfather had been See also:chief See also:baron of the See also:exchequer
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See also:Richard was educated at the See also:Charterhouse and at See also:Gloucester See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he matriculated in 1634
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Through the See also:request of one of the See also:queen's ladies on the royal visit to Oxford he was made M.A., though only in his second See also:year at the university
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Lovelace's fame has been kept alive by a few songs and the See also:romance of his career, and his poems are commonly spoken of as careless improvisations, and merely the amusements of an active soldier
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But the unhappy course of his See also:life gave him more leisure for See also:verse-making than opportunity of soldiering
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Before the outbreak of the See also:civil See also:war in 1642 his only active service was in the bloodless expedition which ended in the Pacification of See also:Berwick in 164o
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On the conclusion of See also:peace he entered into See also:possession of the family estates at Bethersden, See also:Canterbury, See also:Chart and Halden in See also:Kent
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By that time he was one of the most distinguished of the See also:company of courtly poets gathered See also:round Queen Henrietta, who were influenced as a school by contemporary See also:French writers of vers de societe
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He wrote a See also:comedy, The See also:Scholar, when he was sixteen, and a tragedy, The -Soldier, when he was twenty-one
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From what he says of See also:Fletcher, it would seem that this dramatist was his See also:model, but only the See also:prologue and See also:epilogue to his comedy have been preserved
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When the rupture between See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king and See also:parliament took See also:place, Lovelace was committed to the See also:Gatehouse at See also:Westminster for presenting to the See also:Commons in 1642 a See also:petition from Kentish royalists in the king's favour
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It was then that he wrote his most famous See also:song, " To Althea from See also:Prison." He was liberated, says See also:Wood, on See also:bail of £40,000 (more probably £4000), and throughout the civil war was a prisoner on See also:parole, with this See also:security in the hands of his enemies
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He contrived, however, to render considerable service to the king's cause
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He provided his two See also:brothers with See also:money to raise men for the Royalist See also:army, and befriended many of the king's adherents
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He was especially generous to scholars and musicians, and among his associates in See also:London were See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Lawes and See also:John Gamble, the Cottons, Sir See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Lely, See also:Andrew Marvell and probably Sir John Suckling
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He joined the king at Oxford in 1645, and after the surrender of the See also:city in 1646 he raised a See also:regiment for the service of the French king
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He was wounded at the See also:siege of See also:Dunkirk, and with his brother See also:Dudley, who had acted as See also:captain in his brother's command, returned to See also:England in 1648
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It is not known whether the brothers took any See also:part in the disturbances in Kent of that year, but both were imprisoned at See also:Petre See also:House in Alders-See also:gate
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During this second imprisonment he collected and revised for the See also:press a See also:volume of occasional poems, many if not most of which had previously appeared in various publications
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The volume was published in 1649 under the See also:title of Lucasta, his poetical name—contracted from Lux Casta—for a See also:lady rashly identified by Wood as See also:Lucy See also:Sacheverell, who, it is said, married another during his See also:absence in See also:France, on a See also:report that he had died of his wounds at Dunkirk
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The last ten years of Lovelace's life were passed in obscurity
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His See also:fortune had been exhausted in the king's See also:interest, and he is said to have been supported by the generosity of See also:friends
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He died in 1658 " in a cellar in See also:Long-See also:acre," according to See also:Aubrey, who, however, possibly exaggerates his poverty
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A volume of Lovelace's Posthume Poems was published in 1659 by his brother Dudley
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They are of inferior merit to his own collection
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The See also:world has done no injustice to Lovelace in neglecting all but a few of his modest offerings to literature
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But critics often do him injustice in dismissing him as a See also:gay See also:cavalier, who dashed off his verses hastily and cared little what became of them
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It is a See also:mistake to class him with Suckling; he has neither Suckling's easy See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace nor his reckless spontaneity
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We have only to compare the version of any of his poems in Lucasta with the See also:form in which it originally appeared to see how fastidious was his revision
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In many places it takes time to decipher his meaning
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The expression is often elliptical, the syntax inverted and tortuous, the See also:train of thought intricate and discontinuous
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These faults—they are not of course to be found in his two or three popular lyrics, " Going to the See also:Wars," " To Althea from Prison," " The See also:Scrutiny "—are, however, as in the See also:case of his poetical See also:master, See also:Donne, the faults not of haste but of over-elaboration
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His thoughts are not the first thoughts of an See also:improvisatore, but -thoughts ten or twenty stages removed from the first, and they are generally as closely packed as they are far-fetched
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His poems were edited by W
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C
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See also:Hazlitt in 1864
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