biography
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| lived:
| (1618–58)
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| biography:
| English Cavalier poet. He studied at Oxford, SC England, UK, and in 1642 was imprisoned for presenting to the House of Commons a petition from the royalists of Kent ‘for the restoring the king to his rights’, and was released on bail. He spent his great estate in Kent in the king's cause, assisted the French in 1646 to capture Dunkirk from the Spaniards, and was flung into jail on returning to England in 1648. In jail he revised his poems, including ‘To Althea, from Prison’, and in 1649 published his collection of poems, Lucasta. |
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