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Cavalier Poet Group Lyric Flourished Reign Charles I

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Back a group of lyric poets who flourished during the reign of Charles I 1625_49
these courtiers wrote about love and loyalty to the monarch, usually in complimentary poems or heat-lighted lyrics.
Lovelace, Suckling and Carew were the most prominent, while Herrick and Waller, though not of their social coterie, often resemble them in literary style and attitude.
all owe a debt to Donne and Jonson

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