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Sir John Suckling, a noted Cavalier poet, wrote "Why so pale and wan fond lover?" for his 1637 play Aglaura. In this poem, a speaker counsels his heartbroken friend to stop moping around over an unrequited love.
Like the other cavalier poets he scorned the sonnet and the sentimentality of love poetry, writing lyrics with short lines displaying an urbane, graceful and somewhat cynical wit. He won dramatic acclaim with his performances of Aglaura but much of his work was published only after his death.
Suckling’s poetry is considered to present the height of libertine cynicism, enjoyable excursions into a world of carefree abandonment, reveling in wine, women, and gambling, a male world of conquest and gratifications; but, as a line in “An Answer to some Verses Made in his praise” suggests, perhaps beneath all the humor and one ...
John Suckling was an English poet who was born in 1609. He is remembered as a Cavalier poet and for inventing cribbage. Of his many poems, his most commonly studied is ‘Ballade upon a Wedding.’ He is also remembered for his drama, including Aglaura and The Goblins.
Contains some poems by Suckling, selected by Bloom and with commentary by Bloom. Clayton, Thomas. “’At Bottom a Criticism of Life’: Suckling and the Poetry of Low Seriousness.”
Like the other cavalier poets he scorned the sonnet and the sentimentality of love poetry, writing lyrics with short lines displaying an urbane, graceful and somewhat cynical wit. He won dramatic acclaim with his performances of Aglaura but much of his work was published only after his death.
1 sty 2012 · PDF | Cavalier, libertine, wit, courtier: as the early modern biographer John Aubrey put it, Sir John Suckling (1609–ca. 1641) was " the greatest... | Find, read and cite all the research...
