An in-depth study of poetry written during the reign of the early Stuarts and the English Civil Wars. Includes genres such as love poetry, social and political satire, metaphysical poetry, utopic fiction, and political philosophy and poetry, and authors such as John Donne, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Ben Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Robert Herrick, and Andrew Marvell.