A-Z: General definitions: Cavalier poet


A continuation of the style of Elizabethan courtly love poetry into the first half of the seventeenth century, working with conventional themes, diction, images and structures. It is usually a very smooth, polished verse, but originality, striking phrases and images are not its strong points. A typical pattern for a Cavalier poem is a negotiation over courtship, done in terms of praise, scorn, acceptance and rejection. 

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