"The Scrutiny" or "The Scrutinie", in its older English form, is a poem written by the English poet Richard Lovelace. The year of publication of this particular poem is unknown, but Richard Lovelace wrote poems throughout his entire life, which...

Richard Lovelace was an English poet and playwright during the Renaissance period and a notable figure involved with the Royal military and petitions regarding the Church of England which led to his imprisonment.

The Grasshopper is a poem Richard...

"The Scrutiny" is a poem written by Richard Lovelace, a 17th Century English poet. Lovelace was a cavalier poet who is well-known for his poems "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres," and "To Althea, from Prison." Unlike these poems, "The Scrutiny" is...

“To Althea, From Prison” was composed by Richard Lovelace in 1642, but would not be published until 1649 in the author’s collection titled To Lucasta. Lovelace had been a central member of a group of writers known as the Cavalier Poets who...