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The Cavalier Poets

The Cavalier Poets . Were loyal to Charles I (1625

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The Cavalier Poets

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    1. The Cavalier Poets

    2. The Cavalier Poets Were loyal to Charles I (1625–49) Use of direct and colloquial language expressive of a highly individual personality, and their enjoyment of the casual, the amateur, the affectionate poem written by the way. They distrust the over-earnest, the too intense.

    3. They treat life and poetic convention cavalierly. Life is far too enjoyable for it to be spent sweating over verses in a study. The Cavalier Poets

    4. The Cavalier Poets The Mistress in no longer an impossibly chaste goddess to be wooed with sighs, but a woman who may be spoken to in a forthright fashion.

    5. Carpe Diem “seize the day” Time is fleeting, so act decisively to enjoy life.

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