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petition which was supposed to have been burned. These actions resulted in
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Lovelace's poetry was often influenced by his experiences with politics and association with important figures of his time. At the age of nineteen he contributed a verse to a volume of elegies commemorating
Princess Katharine. In 1639 Lovelace joined the regiment of Lord Goring, serving first as a
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