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"To Althea, from Prison" is a poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey due to his effort to have the ...
Richard Lovelace (/ ˈ l ʌ v l ə s /, homophone of "loveless"; [1] 9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of Charles I during the English Civil War.
Richard Lovelace may refer to: Richard Lovelace (poet) (1617–1657), 17th century English poet; Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace (1564–1634)
"To Lucasta, Going to the Warres" is a 1649 poem by Richard Lovelace.It was published in the collection Lucasta by Lovelace of that year. The initial poems were addressed to Lucasta, not clearly identified with any real-life woman, under the titles "Going beyond the Seas" and "Going to the Warres", on a chivalrous note.
Richard Lovelace "To Althea from Prison" "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars" Thomas Babington Macaulay "Ivry" "The Armada" "The Battle of Naseby" Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" Andrew Marvell "Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda" "The Girl Describes her Fawn" William Julius Mickle "Cumnor Hall" John Milton "L'Allegro" "Il ...
Richard Lovelace's poem "To Althea, From Prison" was recorded by Fairport Convention on their album Nine. "In the Gloaming", a popular song of 1877, with lyrics from an earlier published poem. Composer Dan Welcher created a song cycle out of the poetry chapbook 'Matchbook' by Beth Gylys. [3]
Aaron Radford-Wattley reads Masters’s poem, which Masters wrote while on death row at San Quentin State Prison and won him a PEN Award. “Recipe for Prison Pruno,” by Jarvis Jay Masters Skip ...
May – The 35-year-old John Milton marries the teenage Mary Powell. A few weeks later she leaves him in London and returns to her family in Oxfordshire. [1]May/June – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace is incarcerated in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster for defying Parliament.