ABSTRACT
Lovelace (1618-57/8), courtier and supporter of Charles I, contributed to Clitophon and Leucippe with other Oxford friends or connections of the translator. ‘Astrophil’ is also saluted in a Chaucerian poem ‘To his Friend A.H.’ by Francis James (sig. A7); the name ‘Clitophon’ must also have reminded readers inescapably of the character in Arcadia.
