The Scrutiny
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- Created on: 10-06-20 22:20
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- The Scrutiny Context
- Richard Lovelace
- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) was born in 1618 in either Woolich, Kent, or Holland. The exact place of his birth is unknown.
- He came from a family of considerable wealth.
- His father was a soldier in the Low Countries who died in action in the war between Spain and Holland in 1627. Richard was only nine.
- Because of his father’s services he was given a courtly education and studied at the Charterhouse School and at Gloucester House in Oxford.
- In college he was known more for being a social connoisseur than a good student; the ladies loved him.
- while at Oxford that he gained the reputation for being a Cavalier.
- Lovelace’s tone is very light and bouncy. His poems read like songs. He makes uses of conceits
- Lovelace was a cavalier poet
- loyal to Charles 1; known as royalists and against puritans
- enjoyed hedonism - enjoyment over morality
- love is sensual and physical, calls for sexual liberty
- not interested in religion
- opportunistic, believed in carpe diem.
- adopted a jaunty, carefree and dismissive arrogant tone
- a reaction against the puritans who had a serious attitude to life.
- Cavaliers vs Puritans
- Puritans denounced theatre and dance as morally detrimental
- Puritans wore drab colours and had short hair.
- Cavaliers wore colourful velvet and had long hair
- Richard Lovelace
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