Cavalier poets


plural noun

a group of English poets, including Herrick, Carew, Lovelace, and Suckling, mainly at the court of Charles I.

Origin of Cavalier poets

First recorded in 1875–80

British Dictionary definitions for cavalier poets

Cavalier poets

pl n

a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace