Group of English gentlemen poets who were Cavaliers (supporters of Charles I during the English Civil Wars ).
The term embraces Sir John Suckling , Edmund Waller , Robert Herrick , Thomas Carew (1594?–1640?), and Richard Lovelace (1618–57). Accomplished as soldiers, courtiers, gallants, and wits, they wrote polished and elegant lyrics, typically on love and dalliance and sometimes on war, honour, and duty to the king.