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Richard Lovelace first started writing while he was a student at Oxford and wrote almost 200 poems from that time until his death. His first work was a drama titled The Scholars. The play was never published; however, it was performed at college and then in London. In 1640, he wrote a tragedy titled The Soldier which was based on his own military experience. When serving in the Bishops' Wars, he wrote the sonnet "To Generall Goring," which is a poem of Bacchanalian celebration rather than a glorification of military action. One of his extremely famous poems is "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres," written in 1640 and exposed in his first political action. During his first imprisonment in 1642, he wrote his most famous poem "To Althea, From Prison." Later on that year during his travels to Holland with General Goring, he wrote "The Rose," following with "The Scrutiny" and on 14 May 1649, "Lucasta" was published. He also wrote poems analyzing the details of many simple insects. "The Ant," 'The Grasse-hopper," "The Snayl," "The Falcon," "The Toad and Spyder." Of these poems, "The Grasse-hopper" is his most well-known. In 1660, after Lovelace died, "Lucasta: Postume Poems" was published; it contains "A Mock-Song," which has a much darker tone than his previous works.
