Cavalier poets

American  

plural noun

1. a group of English poets, including Herrick, Carew, Lovelace, and Suckling, mainly at the court of Charles I.

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Cavalier poets British  

plural noun

1. a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace

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Etymology

Origin of Cavalier poets

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

“Think of all those 17th-century cavalier poets who had no interest in publishing their work — it didn’t occur to them either.”

From Washington Post

The 'metaphysical poets', Cowley, Wither, Herbert, Crashaw, Habbington, and Quarles, and the cavalier poets, Suckling, Carew, Denham, all published poems before the close of this period, in which also Milton's early poems were composed, and the Comus and Lycidas published.

From Project Gutenberg

It would have been singular hearing had there been any to hear, but there was only Karaki, who did not care for the lesser Cavalier poets and on whom whole pages of "Atalanta in Calydon" were quite wasted.

From Project Gutenberg

His verse, while sometimes strained and over-decorated, is chastely designed, rich and, like that of the Cavalier poets of the seventeenth century, mystically devotional.

From Project Gutenberg

Something of the same can be seen in many of the cavalier poets.

From Project Gutenberg