Which of the following themes was not common to the works of Cavalier poets such as Thomas Carew, Sir…
Pious devotion to religious virtues is not the characteristic shared emphasis of the Cavalier grouping, whose familiar themes include courtly good living, carpe diem and…
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Which of the following themes was not common to the works of Cavalier poets such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, James Shirley, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
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Pious devotion to religious virtues is not the characteristic shared emphasis of the Cavalier grouping, whose familiar themes include courtly good living, carpe diem and royal loyalty. Individual poets, especially Herrick, also wrote devotional verse, so the answer concerns the group’s usual secular character rather than an absolute exclusion.
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