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Richard Lovelace was born in Woolwich, the son of a wealthy courtier. He was educated at the Charterhouse School and Gloucester Hall, Oxford (now part of Worcester College). He was created MA after only two years in Oxford, on the occasion of a visit by the king and queen in 1636. He became a courtier, and served as a soldier in Scotland. He presented a royalist petition to Parliament in 1642, and while imprisoned for this offence wrote ‘To Althea’, the last stanza of which is justly famous. On his release he joined the king’s forces, and in 1648 was again sent to prison, where he wrote ‘To Lucasta, Going to the Wars’. He died in extreme poverty.
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Campbell, G. (1989). Richard Lovelace. In: Campbell, G. (eds) The Renaissance (1550–1660). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20157-0_48
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