The purpose of this text is to present a selection of authors from three different centuries.
             We will try, as far as this is possible, to show the differences in language and tone as time have passed. After the brief biography of each author we list a few selected works. We have of course also selected a few passages that in our humble opinion might tell us a little bit more than the mere words it contains.
             Wordsworth Lovelace Shelly
             Richard Lovelace was born in the Netherlands, where his father was posted in military service Lovelace was born rather wealthy and educated at Oxford. Having read in different books about his good looks and wit, he really must have been quite a charming young man in his day.
             Lovelace was also a key figure at the royal court, thus close to the king. He took part in a few of the Kings military expeditions to Scotland around 1940. The campaigns proved a failure, so following his return to England, Lovelace withdrew for a few years to his old family estate in Kent. He was, however, called out of this retirement to present a Royalist petition to the House of Commons. This met with such a hostile reception that Lovelace was promptly imprisoned in the Gatehouse prison, London. It was while he was in prison in 1642 that Lovelace wrote the words for which he is best remembered
             "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" in his poem To Althea.
             On release from prison, Lovelace again went into military service overseas. In 1645 he joined King Charles I and in 1646 he served with the French King. Lovelace had to sell much of his property to maintain himself during this period, and after a time of extreme poverty he died. This was 1658. He was buried at St. Brides, one of the churches that burnt down in the Great Fire of London in 1666. One year after Lovelace's death Lucaste: Posthume Poems was publi
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