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Cavalier poets

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Cavalier poets

Poets of Charles I's court, including Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, and John Suckling. They wrote witty, lighthearted lyrics about love and loyalty to the monarch.



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Though the activist impulse remains visible throughout, Jordan's work in its complete form is certainly not narrowly rhetorical in its focus--certainly no more so than that, say, of the Cavalier poets of the seventeenth century, or of any other population subject to urgent political pressure.
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