The Cavalier Poets
Collected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott
Read by Denis Daly
The poets whose work is included in this collection were contemporaries of John Milton and were active during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II, as well as the intervening period of the Commonwealth. While Milton expressed his disdain for these light-hearted lyrics, they display a compelling and ingenious charm which has been rarely equalled.
Contents
1—Introduction by Thomas W. Parrott
2—To his Mistress the Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton
3—Ask me no more by Thomas Carew
4—Two poems by Sir John Suckling
5—Two poems by Richard Lovelace
6—Six Poems by Robert Herrick
7—On a Girdle by Edmund Waller
8—Two poems by George Herbert
9—Peace by Henry Vaughan
