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Richard Lovelace was one of the most attractive and witty poets of the early 17th century. During this century his poems spoke of love and the honor of oneself to stand for what you truly stand for. Lovelace was an attractive looks and political mind that took him too many places in his life. Lovelace lived a life of poetic success in his life. Some of his life decisions brought him down from his former glory days. Lovelace political works led him to be a poet, political strategist and influential teacher (NNDB) .
Richard Lovelace was born in 1618 which according to records was Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. Lovelace was the eldest of all the eight children. His father and mother are Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace. He also has four brothers and three sisters. Sir William Lovelace was from a distinguished military and legal family that owned a lot of property in Kent. His father was a member of the Virginia Company in 1609 and was killed during the war with Spain and Holland in the siege of Grol. Richard was just nine years old when his father died. Lovelace mother was related to many important and wealthy people during the time of Queen Elizabeth.
When Lovelace was just eleven years old he went to Sutton Foundation at Charterhouse School and then located in London. During his five study years at Charterhouse he spent three years with a man named Richard Crashaw who also became a poet. According to record many believed Richard did not attend Charterhouse because there was no financial assistance set up for him like the other scholars which meant he possibly studied as a boarder of some sort. May 5, 1631 he was named “Gentleman Wayter Extraordinary” to the king. His studies there ended in 1634 when he then went to Glouc...

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...mprisoned in 1642 or either 1648. The poems talks of love, prison, and punishment. In the first stanza Lovelace talks of his dear Althea coming to see him while in prison and him being able to see and talk to her. In his second stanza speaks of nature and the liberty he no longer has because of his loyal heart to helping the king. In his third stanza he talks of singing to his great majesty and singing out his liberty and to the glories of the king. In the last stanza he talks of how the prison is not made by walls of stone and bar gates and that he is free through his love and liberty.

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Applebee, Arthur N., et al. The Language of Literatue: British Literature. Evanston, IL:
McDougal Little Inc. 2006. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/349554/Richard-Lovelace http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/
http://www.nndb.com/people/984/000097693/

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