id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7023 Richard Lovelace - Wikipedia .html text/html 2515 275 73 He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are "To Althea, from Prison", and "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres". At the age of nineteen he contributed a verse to a volume of elegies commemorating Princess Katharine.[9] In 1639 Lovelace joined the regiment of Lord Goring, serving first as a senior ensign and later as a captain in the Bishops' Wars. This prevented Lovelace, who had done everything to prove himself during the Bishops' Wars, from participating in the first phase of the English Civil War. This first experience of imprisonment brought him to write one of his best known lyrics, "To Althea, from Prison", in which he illustrates his noble and paradoxical nature. From the time Richard Lovelace started writing while he was a student at Oxford he wrote almost 200 poems. The Poems of Richard Lovelace. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7023.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7023.txt