Lucasta (eBook, ePUB) - Lovelace, Richard
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Richard Lovelace's 'Lucasta' is a collection of love poems that represent the epitome of 17th-century English Cavalier poetry. Written during the English Civil War, Lovelace's poems are characterized by their eloquent language, emotional depth, and themes of love, honor, and loyalty. The poems in 'Lucasta' reflect the author's own experiences as a Royalist soldier, offering a poignant look into the complexities of love and war during a turbulent period in English history. Lovelace's poetic style is marked by its lyrical beauty and passionate expressions, making 'Lucasta' a timeless work of poetry that continues to resonate with readers today.…mehr

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Richard Lovelace's 'Lucasta' is a collection of love poems that represent the epitome of 17th-century English Cavalier poetry. Written during the English Civil War, Lovelace's poems are characterized by their eloquent language, emotional depth, and themes of love, honor, and loyalty. The poems in 'Lucasta' reflect the author's own experiences as a Royalist soldier, offering a poignant look into the complexities of love and war during a turbulent period in English history. Lovelace's poetic style is marked by its lyrical beauty and passionate expressions, making 'Lucasta' a timeless work of poetry that continues to resonate with readers today.
Autorenporträt
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.