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====Richard Lovelace's fame has been kept alive by the romance of his career. His poems are commonly spoken of as careless improvisations, and merely the amusements of an active soldier. However, due to his unhappiness with life he found verse-making to be a hobby of his in his leisure time. By 1640, Richard Lovelace was considered one of the most distinguished of the company of courtly poets that gathered around Queen Henrietta. Some of Lovelace's first works, that stemmed during this portion of his life, included //The Scholar// and //The Soldier.//==== ====Subsequently, as Lovelace became closer to royalty there was a rupture between the king and parliament. Upon returning to his estates in Kent in 1642, Lovelace was chosen in the king's favor to travel to the Gatehouse at Westminster and present a petition to the Commons from Kentish royalists. Unfortunately for Lovelace, he was sent to jail in London. During this time he wrote //to Althea, from Prison.// This would become one of his most famous poems of all time. After being released on a bail for 40,000 pounds he was considered a prisoner on patrol. He contrived to render considerable service to the king's cause. He was generous to scholars and musicians and among his associates in London was Andrew Marvell.==== ====In 1646 after the surrender of the city, Lovelace raised a regiment for the service of the French King. During this battle in Dunkirk Richard was wounded and returned to England. He was then imprisoned again at Petre House in Aldersgate. However, during this very exclusive time Lovelace collected and complied a volume of occasional poems for the press. (which may or may not have appeared in various publications). In 1649, //Lucasta,// the potential name of this volume, was published.==== ====Unfortunately, the last 10 years of Lovelace's life were passed with uncertainty and obscurity. His fortune had been exhausted in the king's interest. He died in 1658 due to an unknown cause. The exact date and location of his death remains unclear however, it has been said that Lovelace died in a cellar in Long Acre. After his death, in 1659 his brother, Dudley, published Lovelace's //Posthune Poems.//==== ====Spoken by both critiques and contemporaries, Lovelace has been praised for being "the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld; a person of innate modesty, virtue, and courtly deportment". Lovelace was a Cavalier poet and highly respected in the beginning of his life. His poems were written to praise fellow poets or friends, to give advice in grief or love, to define a relationship, to articulate precise amount of attention a man owes a woman, to celebrate beauty, and to persuade love. Lovelace had potentiates of greatness but rather redeemed himself as an amateur. His life was rather subtle and estranged, but his works of poetry have forever lived on to be analyzed for their value and great quality.====

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