written during his first imprisonment in 1642. Later that year, during his travels to Holland with General Goring, he wrote The Rose, followed by The Scrutiny. On 14 May 1649, Lucasta' was published. He also wrote poems on animal life: The Ant, The Grasse-hopper, The Snayl, The Falcon, The Toad and Spyder. In 1660, after Lovelace died, Lucasta: Postume Poems was published; it contains A Mock-Song, which has a darker tone than his previous works. William Winstanley thought highly of Lovelace's work and compared him to an idol: "I can compare no Man so like this Colonel Lovelace as Sir Philip Sidney" of which it is in an Epitaph made of him; Nor is it fit that more I should Lest Men adore in one A Scholar, , Lover, and a Saint His most quoted excerpts are from the beginning of the last stanza of "To Althea, From Prison": Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage and the end of "To Lucasta. Going to the Warres": I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not Honour more. Chronology 1617 – On 9 December, Richard Lovelace is born, either in Woolwich, Kent, or in Holland. 1629 – King Charles I nominated "Thomas [probably Richard] Lovelace", upon petition of Lovelace's mother, Anne Barne Lovelace, to Sutton's foundation at Charterhouse. 1631 – On 5 May, Lovelace is made "Gentleman Wayter Extraordinary" to the King. 1634 – On 27 June, he matriculates as Gentleman Commoner at Gloucester Hall, Oxford. 1635 – Writes a comedy, The Scholars. 1636 – On 31 August, the degree of M.A. is presented to him. 1637 – On 4 October, he enters Cambridge University. 1638–1639 – His first printed poems appear: An Elegy on Princess Catherine, the daughter of Charles I; prefaces to several books. 1639 – He is senior ensign in General Goring’s regiment – in the First Scottish Expedition. Sonnet to Goring1640 – Commissioned captain in the Second Scottish Expedition; writes a tragedy, The Soldier (unperformed, unpublished and lost) and the poem "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres". He then returns home at 21, into the possession of his family’s property. 1641 – Lovelace tears up a pro-Parliament, anti-Episcopacy petition at a meeting in Maidstone, Kent. 1642 – 30 April, he presents the anti-Parliamentary Petition of Kent and is imprisoned at Gatehouse.