| Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| Petrarchism | Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare |
| Shakespearean sonnet | sonnet, Renaissance poetry, Shakespeare, Wyatt, Surrey |
| blank verse | meter, rhythm, Earl of Surrey, John Milton, Renaissance drama, Thomas Heywood |
| 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 |
| poulter's measure | meter, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Gascoigne |