Editing Richard Lovelace (poet) (section)

==Collegiate career==
Lovelace attended the [[University of Oxford]] and was praised by his contemporary [[Anthony Wood (antiquary)|Anthony Wood]]<ref name ="DLB">Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 131: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Third Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by M. Thomas Hester, North Carolina State University. The Gale Group, 1993. pp. 123–133</ref> as "the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld; a person also of innate [[modesty]], virtue and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex".

While at college, he tried to portray himself more as a social connoisseur than as a scholar, continuing his image of being a [[Cavalier]].<ref name="maus">''The Early Seventeenth Century'' The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth Century, The Early Seventeenth Century. Ed. [[Barbara K. Lewalski]] and Katharine Eisaman Maus. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. 1681–1682.</ref> Being a Cavalier poet, Lovelace wrote to praise a friend or fellow poet, to give advice in grief or love, to define a relationship, to articulate the precise amount of attention a man owes a woman, to celebrate beauty, and to persuade to love.<ref name="DLB"/> Lovelace wrote a comedy, ''The Scholars'', while at Oxford. He then left for the [[University of Cambridge]] for a few months, where he met [[George Goring, Lord Goring|Lord Goring]], who led him into political trouble.

At the age of eighteen he was granted the degree of [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|Master of Arts]] at Oxford University.<ref name=ODNB/>