Cavalier poet

As cavalier poets ( " Cavalier Poets" ), a number of poets are referred to in the English literary history, I especially under the rule of Charles ( the Caroline period so-called ), whose works emerged during the English Civil War and the subsequent interregnum.

The English poets of this time are usually divided into two different "schools". The term cavalier poets is often used in contrast to the metaphysical poets ( the " metaphysical poets "). While the poems of metaphysicals are marked by religious inwardness and an increasingly enigmatic expression, then the cavaliers worked secular themes in an easily accessible, pleasing, refined diction, especially classical courtly subjects such Liebesverklärung and feudal loyalty. Politically united the cavalier poets in the domestic political turmoil of the time a royalist attitude.

The most significant influence on the cavaliers practiced Ben Jonson from, still bored Sir John Suckling, Sir Richard Fanshawe, William Habington, Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Aurelian Townshend, William Cartwright, Thomas Randolph, James Shirley and Edmund Waller become the cavalier poets counted. A middle position between metaphysicals and cavaliers occupies Thomas Carew.