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Richard Lovelace born 1618, Woolwich, London was an English cavalier poet in the seventeenth century, who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. He wrote ‘To Lucasta on Going to the Wars’ in 1649
Some of the important dates of Richard Lovelace:
1631 - On 5 May, Lovelace is made "Gentleman Wayter Extraordinary" to the King.
1634 - On 27 June, he matriculates as Gentleman Commoner at Gloucester Hall, Oxford.
1635 - Writes a comedy, The Scholars.
1636 - On 31 August, the degree of M.A. is presented to him.
1637 - On 4 October, he enters Cambridge University.
1638–1639 - His first printed poems appear: An Elegy on Princess Katherine; prefaces to several books.
1639 - He is senior ensign in General Goring’s regiment - in the First Scottish Expedition. Sonnet to Goring
1640 - Commissioned captain in the Second Scottish Expedition; writes a tragedy, The Soldier (unperformed, unpublished and lost) and the poem "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres". He then returns home at 21, into the possession of his family’s property.
1641 - Lovelace tears up a pro-Parliament, anti-Episcopacy petition at a meeting in Maidstone, Kent.
1642 – 30 April, he presents the
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