| Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| Grand Tour | Renaissance lit., Sidney |
| Petrarchism | Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare |
| Venus and Adonis stanza | stanza, Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry |
| apology | literary genre, Renaissance Lit., Sir Philip Sidney |
| blazon | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Philip sidney, Thomas Lodge, Shakespeare sonnet |
| conceit | stylistic device, rhetorical device, figurative language, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, Thomas Wyatt, Shakespeare play, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare sonnet, Henry Constable, Andrew Marvell, emblem, emblem book, George Wither, typolog |
| courtly love | Renaissance poetry, Renaissance drama, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare sonnet |
| dirge | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Philip Sidney, Henry King, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, John Webster |
| echo verse | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Philip Sidney, George Herbert |
| elegiac distich | stanza form, Renaissance poetry, Sidney, Spenser |
| elegy | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Donne, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Carew, John Cleveland, Ben Jonson, Henry King, John Milton, British literary history, Spenser, Sidney |
| epithalamion | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell, Crashaw, Suckling |
| fancy and imagination | Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Francis Bacon, Sidney, British literary history |
| lyric | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Daniel, Spenser, Shakespeare, Campion, Drayton, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, Carew, Marvell, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan |
| maker | Sidney |
| masque | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Jonson, Shakespeare play, Dekker, John Ford, Milton, Sidney, Daniel, Chapman, Shirley, Carew, Fletcher, Campion, Beaumont, Middleton |
| paragone | Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Sidney |
| pastoral | literary genre, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Drayton, Jonson, Shirley, Sidney, Donne, Fletcher, Milton, Marvell, British literary history |
| poulter's measure | meter, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Gascoigne |
| rhetorical question | rhetorical device, stylistic device, Sidney, Shakespeare play |
| saphhic ode | ode, Sidney, British literary history |
| sonnet | sonnet, general literary history, Italian lit., British literary history, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Daniel, Lodge, Constable, Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton, long entry |
| sonnet cycle | sonnet, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne |
| tragedy | element of literature, drama, drama genre, plot, character, Aristotle, Philip Sidney, Anouilh, Greek lit., Roman lit., Seneca, Renaissance lit., 18th century lit., Spanish lit., 19th century lit., Ibsen, Strindberg, 20th century lit., tragic flaw |
| tragi-comedy | drama, drama genre, Renaissance lit., Italian lit., John Fletcher, Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, French lit., 19th century lit., 20th century lit. |
| treatise | literature genre, nonfiction prose, Renaissance lit., 18th century lit., 19th century lit., Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon, David Hume, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Bentham, Malthus, Locke |
| vates | poetry, Virgil, Philip Sidney |
| war poets, the | British lit., British poetry, 20th century British lit., 20th century British poetry, Owen, Sassoon, Blunden, Sorley, Rosenberg, Hodgson, Shanks, Edward Thomas, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Gibson, Alan Seeger, Herbert Asquith, David Jones, Sidney Keyes |
| wit | Renaissance lit., Roger Ascham, Lyly, Philip Sidney, Boyle, Locke, Hobbes, 18th century lit., Dryden, Cowley, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Donne, Marvell, fancy and imagination, jeu d'esprit |