A guide to British poetry from 1600 to 1800 that features more than 400 entries ranging in length from 300 to more than 2,500 words. It covers major poems, such as ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"", ""The Flea"", ""Paradise Lost"", and ""The Rape of the Lock"", and poets from the Puritan period up to the beginnings of the Romantic Age.
