| Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| commonwealth period | Renaissance lit., British literary history, thomas browne, edmund waller, john milton, thomas fuller, jeremy taylor, abraham cowley, andrew marvell, henry vaughan |
| 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 |
| country house poem | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell |
| debat | poetry genre, drama history, Renaissance poetry, Andrew Marvell, jeu parti |
| dramatic monologue | poetry genre, British literary history, Renaissance poetry, John Donne, Metaphysical poetry, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell |
| epithalamion | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell, Crashaw, Suckling |
| homostrophic | stanza form, Marvell |
| 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 |
| metaphysical | Renaissance poetry, Donne, Carew, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, Cleveland, Cowley |
| occasional verse | poetry genre, Milton, Marvell |
| ode | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Daniel, DRayton, Jonson, Marvell, British literary history |
| paradox | stylistic device, rhetorical device, Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Milton, Browne, Donne, Marvell, British literary history, metaphysical, new criticism, deconstructionist literary criticism |
| pastoral | literary genre, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Drayton, Jonson, Shirley, Sidney, Donne, Fletcher, Milton, Marvell, British literary history |
| 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 |