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Richard Lovelace

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The Resume

    (December 9, 1617-1657)
    Born in United Kingdom
    Author of ‘To Althea, from Prison’ and ‘To Lucasta, Going to the Warres’
    17th-century (Late English Renaissance) cavalier poet

Why he might be annoying:

    LOVE-less.
    He was born into significant wealth and power, yet died in abject poverty.
    He was imprisoned over presenting the English House of Commons with a pro-Royalist petition meant to be burned.
    At the end of another prison term, in 1649, his cause was left in limbo by the execution of the king.
    ‘A Mock-Song,’ from ‘Lucasta: Postume Poems’ – published a few years after his death – was revealed to have a much darker tone than his earlier stuff.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was one of eight children.
    If scholars and historians can’t agree on his exact birth location, they definitely agree he died in London.
    Following a stint in the Lord Goring (not Goering) regiment, in which he achieved the rank of Captain, he became a justice of the peace in Kent.
    He spearheaded an operation to destroy a petition – signed by some 15,000 people (no small feat in his day) – to abolish Episcopal rule.
    He referred to the Lucasta of his poem – one Lucy Sacherevell, who had since married – as ‘Lux casta.’

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    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
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    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying