The Cavalier Poets

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I do not nesccairly mean the 5 under Charles But English Poetry between 1640 and 1700 . The best era for poems and shit ever. Yes i expect this pendantic topic to be fairly unanswered.

― anthony, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suckling and Lovelace. Sound like new lines at Victoria's Secret. Go back and abase yourself before the Godlike genius that is George Herbert, mate.

― T Traherne, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Totally into Rochester and Herbert !

― anthony, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How can any sane person not want the royals' heads on spikes tho?

― dave q, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

on the whole i prefer the medieval era for best poems and shit ever. though i'm partial to a bit of Paradise Lost, and the odd restoration comedy.

― katie, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Time for a debate on merits of formalism in early seventeenh-century religious verse, surely?

― T Traherne, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

taking sides: metaphysickal formalism vs collosecatickal regicide

― mark s, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Almost undoubtedly the title of the next Current 93 album.

― T Traherne, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

Robert Herrick rocks!

― Jim Jackson, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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