Cavalier poetry
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Cavalier poetry is a style of 17th-century English verse, often light, elegant, and lyrical, written by supporters of King Charles I that celebrates honor, love, and loyalty to the monarchy.
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| instanceOf |
17th-century English literature
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literary movement → poetic style → |
| employsRhetoricalDevice |
conceit (less elaborate than metaphysical conceit)
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| hasAestheticIdeal |
ease
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sprezzatura → |
| hasCountryOfOrigin |
England
NERFINISHED
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| hasForm |
epigram
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occasional verse → short lyric → song → |
| hasLanguage |
English
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| hasLiteraryContext |
Caroline era
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Stuart period → |
| hasNotablePractitioner |
Edmund Waller
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Richard Lovelace → Robert Herrick → Sir John Suckling → Thomas Carew → |
| hasPoliticalAlignment |
Royalist
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| hasPoliticalContext |
English Civil War
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| hasSocialContext |
aristocratic culture
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court of King Charles I → |
| hasStyleCharacteristic |
clarity
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elegant diction → formal polish → graceful wit → light tone → lyrical quality → |
| hasTheme |
carpe diem
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courtly life → friendship → honor → love → loyalty → loyalty to the monarchy → pleasure → war and duty → |
| hasTimePeriod |
17th century
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| influenced |
later English lyric poetry
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| isAssociatedWith |
Cavalier poets
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Royalists → supporters of King Charles I → |
| isContrastedWith |
Metaphysical poetry
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| isInfluencedBy |
Renaissance lyric tradition
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classical poetry → courtly love tradition → |
| usesForm |
rhymed couplets
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stanzaic forms → |
| usesMeter |
iambic meter
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Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Royalists
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associatedWith |
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Cavalier poetry
("Cavalier poets")
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isAssociatedWith |